Elderly married couple killed in Russian attack on Odesa, Ukraine, officials say

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A Russian drone attack overnight on Ukraine’s southern city of ​Odesa killed an elderly married ‌couple and wounded more than a dozen others, Ukrainian officials said on Friday.

The ​strike wrecked two two-storey buildings ​and hit another two-storey one where ⁠two people died, emergency services ​said.

It also wrecked apartments in ​a three-storey building, triggering fire, they said.

“A married couple, both aged 75, were killed ​in a night-time attack,” Serhiy ​Lysak, the head of the local military ‌administration, ⁠said on Telegram.

A local resident clears debris in her apartment building destroyed by Russian drones in Odesa on April 23, 2026. AFP via Getty Images
An emergency psychologist assists a resident with a bandaged, bloody head near his apartment building in Odessa. via REUTERS
Rescuers work to extinguish a fire at an apartment building in Odesa after the Russian drone attack. via REUTERS

Lysak said that 15 people were injured in the attack, while emergency services put the ​number of ​injured ⁠at 14.

He added that eight of those injured in ​the attack were treated in ​hospital.

Lysak ⁠posted photos of a building engulfed by fire, and another one ⁠with ​a gaping hole on ​its side, and emergency crews working inside.

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