Five people were injured and a residential building was damaged in an attack by a Russian drone on the southern Ukrainian region of Odesa, regional governor Oleh Kiper said today, Reuters reports.
Kiper said that the attack caused a fire in the unfinished building, which has since been extinguished, and the windows and facade of the nine-story building and the windows of the medical facility were damaged.
The Ukrainian military said it shot down 21 of 22 drones launched by Russia overnight.
Russia was also said to have launched three ballistic missiles at Ukraine's central Poltava region.
Regional Governor Filip Pronin said that one industrial building was damaged in the attack, but that there were no hits in civilian infrastructure and that there were no victims.
Extraordinary in Bryansk, Russia claims to have shot down 47 Ukrainian drones
A state of emergency was declared today in the district in the western Russian region of Bryansk after the detonation of explosive materials, the state news agency TASS reported, reports Reuters.
Bryansk Oblast borders Belarus, Ukraine and Russia's Kursk Oblast, where Moscow has been fighting to expel Ukrainian troops since August.
The Beta agency reported that the Russian army announced that it shot down 47 Ukrainian drones overnight, almost half of them in the Bryansk region, which borders Ukraine.
"During the night, Kiev's attempts to carry out terrorist drone attacks on locations on Russian territory were prevented," the Russian Ministry of Defense announced today.
"Air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 47 Ukrainian drones," 24 of which were in the Bryansk region, the statement said.
Five drones were shot down over Belgorod region, two over Kursk, both regions bordering Ukraine.
Two drones were destroyed in the Rostov region near the Ukrainian border, one in the Krasnodar region in the southwest and 13 over the Sea of Azov.
Russia reports almost daily that it has destroyed Ukrainian drones sent to its territory. Kiev acknowledges the attacks, which often target energy installations, in response to Russia's bombing of Ukraine, which has been ongoing for more than two years.
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