Russian drones strike Odesa Oblast infrastructure during overnight assault on Ukraine
Russia attacked Odesa Oblast and other parts of Ukraine in the early hours of Sept. 4, hitting civilian infrastructure, Natalia Humeniuk, head of the Joint Coordination Press Center of the Southern Defense Forces reported on national television.
"The (air raid) alert sounded for over three-and-a-half hours," Humeniuk said.
"The enemy again repeated a massive attack on the south of Odesa Oblast, using Shahed attack UAVs. The attack (came) in several waves."
The enemy again used the same tactics, she said.
Humeniuk also noted that civilian infrastructure was under attack, and the vast majority of UAVs were destroyed by air defense units.
"Unfortunately, there are hits to civilian infrastructure, there is damage to a building," she said.
Information about casualties is being verified, she added.
Meanwhile, Oleh Kiper, head of the Odesa Oblast Military Administration, reported that 17 drones had been intercepted in Odesa Oblast at night. Later, the Ukrainian Air Force said a total of 23 suicide drones had been shot down during Russian attacks across Ukraine.
"Unfortunately, there were also hits," Kiper said.
"In several settlements of Izmail district, warehouses and industrial buildings, agricultural machinery and equipment of industrial enterprises were damaged. Several fires broke out on the grounds of civilian facilities due to the impact of the debris. As of 7.00 a.m., the fire had been extinguished."
Serhiy Bratchuk, head of the Public Council at Odesa Oblast Military Administration, said the raid on Odesa had lasted 3 hours and 36 minutes.
"For the second day in a row, the enemy is attacking the southern regions of Odesa,” Bratchuk said. “Details from Ukrainian Air Force will be given later. An attack by the enemy on port infrastructure was repelled once again.”
Other parts of Ukraine also came under attack by Russian drones overnight.
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast was targeted by a wave of Russian drones, of which the Ukrainian military managed to destroy six, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast governor Serhiy Lysak said.
He said there had been a hit on an infrastructure facility in Dnipro District, which had caused a fire.
According to preliminary reports, there were no casualties from the attack. The authorities are currently assessing the extent of the damage.
Overnight a total of 32 Shahed launches were recorded during the attacks on Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts, the Ukrainian Air Force said in its morning report on Sept 4.
It said that the air force, in cooperation with air defense units from other branches of the Ukrainian armed forces, had shot down 23 enemy attack UAVs.
Fighter aircraft, anti-aircraft missile troops and mobile fire group units used to shoot down the drones, it said.
The Russian attack with Shahed-136/131 attack drones was launched from the south and southeast of Ukraine, from Cape Chauda, Crimea and Primorsko-Akhtarsk in Russia, the air force said.
Earlier on Sept. 4, air raid alarms sounded at 1 a.m. in Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts due to the threat of launches of ballistic missiles. The air force later said the threat had been repelled.
Later, at 2.24 a.m. air raid sirens also went off in Poltava, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya, and Donetsk oblasts due to the threat of attack by Russian ballistic missiles. The threat was again repelled, the air force said.
There was also an alert in Kherson Oblast
at 3.47 a.m. due to the threat of missile launches.
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