A woman and an eight-month-old infant were found on Sunday in the rubble of the building hit overnight from Friday to Saturday by a Russian drone in Odessa, raising the death toll to ten, Ukrainian authorities said on Sunday. This attack on a nine-story building in this port city on the Black Sea led to the death of ten people, including that of a woman “found in the rubble and a baby found next to (this) woman “, lamented the governor of the Odessa region, Oleg Kiper. The authorities had previously reported a death toll of eight.
Ukrainian emergency services confirmed the death toll of ten, specifying that the baby was “eight months old”. The mother and baby “were found pressed together,” they wrote on Telegram. They also affirmed that work to “clear” the areas where this building partly collapsed was still “in progress”.
“Terror”
However, the authorities did not report the number of injured, although emergency services had mentioned eight injured confirmed Saturday evening. “Today, Odessa and the region mourn the victims of the Russian attack,” Oleg Kiper also indicated in a separate message on Telegram, evoking “great pain” for “all of Ukraine”.
On Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized in his daily address Russian “terror” which “aims exclusively to destroy lives, to intimidate”. At the same time, he once again called on kyiv’s Western allies to deliver more, and more quickly, munitions – which Kiev is sorely lacking -, air defense systems and combat planes to repel the Russian army. “Delays in arms deliveries to Ukraine (…) lead, unfortunately, to such losses,” he said, referring to the deadly Russian strike on Odessa.
Elsewhere in Ukraine, “one person was killed and three others injured” on Sunday in the Kherson region following Russian attacks, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said on Telegram. Five other people were injured overnight from Saturday to Sunday in two Russian bombings in the Donetsk region (east), according to the Ukrainian regional prosecutor’s office.