Drone attack on Odesa Oblast damages port facilities, injures 1.
Russian forces attacked Odesa Oblast with drones on the night of Sept.
7, damaging infrastructure and injuring one person, Oblast Governor Oleh Kiper reported[1] via Telegram. Kiper said the strike targeted Odesa's southern Izmail district, and that the attack damaged both port and civilian infrastructure. The drone strike damaged a grain elevator and an administrative building, Kiper said.
He also said a truck driver sustained a minor injury to his leg during the attack. No other casualties were reported. Emergency services are working at the site of the attacks.
According to the governor, Russian forces pummeled Izmail for three hours. "This is the fourth attack[2] on the Izmail district in the last five days," Kiper said. A Sept.
4 strike on Izmail caused a number of drones to fall and detonate in Romania[3]. The wave of attacks on Ukraine's port infrastructure comes as Russian dictator Vladimir Putin demands[4] the removal of sanctions as a precondition for relaunching the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
Abbey Fenbert
News Editor
Abbey Fenbert is a news editor at the Kyiv Independent. She is a freelance writer, editor, and playwright with an MFA from Boston University.
Abbey served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ukraine from 2008-2011.