On the afternoon of 8 April, explosions occurred in Odesa. The Ukrainian military destroyed enemy reconnaissance drones.
Updated at 17:52.
Explosions in Odesa on 8 April
At the time of the explosions, no air raid alert was issued in Odesa region.
Later, the head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration, Oleh Kiper, said that two Russian reconnaissance drones had been shot down in the sky.
– “Regarding the explosions you could hear today, it was the soldiers of the Odesa anti-aircraft missile brigade who destroyed two Russian Orlan-10 reconnaissance UAVs,” he said in a statement.
Odesa on the map
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