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Russian Military Strikes Kill Three Civilians and Hit Odesa Port Infrastructure in Ukraine
Just the facts
In Kharkiv's Saltivskyi district, a Russian drone strike on a residential high-rise building killed two men, aged 50 and 66, and wounded 21 people. Russian artillery shelling in Kherson's Berislavsky district killed a 61-year-old woman, while an attack near a shopping center in Pavlohrad wounded nine individuals, including four children. In Odesa, Russian military forces deployed over 200 Shahed drones alongside ballistic and anti-ship missiles, damaging port infrastructure, injuring eight people, and causing power outages. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that the attacks on Odesa port directly targeted global food security and grain exports. Russian state news agency TASS reported that Ukrainian drone counter-strikes killed three civilians in Belgorod.
Why this is news
Russian forces launched a series of overnight missile, drone, and artillery attacks across multiple Ukrainian regions on August 9, 2026. The strikes targeted residential areas and energy infrastructure, inflicting structural damage on Odesa's port facilities.
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