Russian drone strike kills elderly couple in Odesa home

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24 Apr 2026 • 5:06 PM MYT
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A Russian drone barrage kills a 75-year-old married couple in Odesa, with two more dead in Kherson as attacks continue.

ODESA: A married couple in their seventies were killed in their home in the early hours of Friday by a Russian drone barrage on the Ukrainian coastal city of Odesa.

Several apartment buildings in the city were struck, with emergency services posting photos of one building almost ripped in two by the barrage.

A firefighter was seen climbing up a ladder into the side of the cratered structure to look for survivors.

“A married couple were killed in the overnight attack, both were 75 years old,” the head of the city military administration Sergiy Lysak wrote on social media.

The Black Sea city, a key export hub on Ukraine’s south coast, has been heavily targeted throughout Russia’s four-year invasion.

Tens of thousands of civilians have been killed and millions displaced in what has become the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War II.

Russian drone attacks on the frontline region of Kherson also killed another two people, a 68-year-old man and a woman whose identity was still being established, local officials there said.

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