Damaged college and dormitories, frightened students, injured policemen: the consequences of the night shelling of Odesa

On the night of February 8, the Russian Federation sent another group of strike drones to Odesa. As a result of the attack, police officers on patrol were injured, and a number of buildings were damaged.

As a result of the night attack on February 8 in Odesa, five buildings were damaged, three of them residential. The building of the Vocational Education Institution on Balkivska Street was also significantly damaged.

Natalya Humenyuk, head of the Joint Coordination Press Center of the Defense Forces of Southern Ukraine, commented on the consequences of the Russian kamikaze drone attack.

Two patrolmen were injured during the attack. After the first hit, they arrived to provide assistance to possible victims, and at that moment the second explosion occurred. As a result, patrolmen received mine-explosive injuries. Currently, their condition is stable, she said.

The drones were flying over residential areas. They were aimed specifically at the city. Combat work lasted for 5 hours. There is a hit in an educational institution, there is a hit in an unfinished residential building, that is, the terror of the civilian population is visible to the naked eye, the spokeswoman also noted.

According to Natali Gumenyuk, the drones entered from the sea. 5 martyrs were killed over the sea in Odesa region, 3 in Mykolaiv and 2 in Vinnytsia regions.

People living near the place of the hits were scared by the explosions, but they are holding their own.

They heard an alarm, then the sound of a flying shached. They got up, got scared and – explosion. Windows and doors flew out. We hid behind the walls, and suddenly there was another explosion. We already experienced the third explosion in the basement, – Sofia, a resident of the damaged building, told about her feelings after the attack.

Student Denys, who lives in the dormitory, said that due to the damage to the buildings of the dormitory and the college, their studies will be conducted remotely, and the students will be sent home.

When the alarm starts, we are all taken to the basement. The first two explosions shattered windows in the dormitory and the college.

Currently, we have been transferred to distance learning due to the impossibility of living in a dormitory with no windows. I am returning home, to Mykolaiv, – said the boy.