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ARCHIVE - Firefighters extinguish a fire in a building after a Russian drone attack in the Odessa region. Photo: Uncredited/Ukrainian Emergency Service/dpa
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Russia has responded to the massive Ukrainian drone attacks on Moscow during the night with counter-attacks. According to the authorities, at least 20 people were injured in drone and missile attacks on regions in the center and south of Ukraine. In the port city of Odessa, drones hit a residential building and injured an eleven-year-old boy and a 59-year-old man. In the city of Dnipro, at least 18 people were reportedly injured, including two children. This information cannot be independently verified.
According to Russian reports, Ukraine launched one of its most violent attacks on the Moscow region on Sunday night since the start of the Russian invasion more than four years ago. According to Russian reports, at least three people were killed. This information cannot be independently verified either.
The numbers of civilians killed and injured and the extent of the damage on the Russian side bear no relation to the many times greater losses and destruction in Ukraine caused by Moscow's devastating war of aggression.
During the attack on Odessa on the Black Sea, drones also damaged a university lecture hall and a kindergarten, as the head of the local military administration, Serhiy Lysak, wrote on the Telegram platform.
In the south-eastern Ukrainian industrial city of Dnipro, the roof of a 24-storey high-rise building caught fire as a result of the attack, as the head of the military administration of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Olexander Hansha, announced on Telegram. A warehouse in which pyrotechnics had been stored was also hit and caught fire. Further fires were reported throughout the city. The exact extent of the damage was initially unclear.
Dnipro and Odessa are repeatedly attacked by Russia with missiles and drones of various types.
18.05.2026, 09:06
18.05.2026, 09:11
