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A fresh wave of drone and missile strikes targeted the Black Sea port city of Odessa late on February 27, with the Kiev regime blaming the attack on the Russian military.
The Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in separate statements that ten Shahed suicide drones attacked the city from the direction of the Black Sea. It also said that S-300 anti-aircraft missiles modified for ground strikes were used in the attack.
All the drones were shot down by Ukrainian air defenses, the command said, without clarifying if the missiles were intercepted.
Ukrainian media said that one of the downed drones fell on the industrial zone of Odessa, damaging an electricity transformer and causing a small fire.
However, videos posted to social media showed several fires as well as what appears to be a drone impacting a target and secondary ammunition explosions in Odessa and the small city of Yuzhne, which is located just a few kilometers to the east.
Ukraine claims that the Russian military uses Iranian-made Shahed-131/136 suicide drones, but Moscow says that it uses similar homegrown drone dubbed the Geran-1/2. The Kiev regime has been also claiming that Russia is using S-300 missiles in ground strikes since the start of the special military operation. However, there is still no evidence backing this claim.
The drone and missile strikes on Odessa came following a series of Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian territory. All the attacks failed.
The Kiev regime sees attacks on Russian territory as a way to make up for its repeated failures on the battlefield, the last of which was the defeat in Avdeevka.
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