Odesa hit by large Russian drone attack on 20 March 2025
A look back at a drone assault on the Ukrainian port city that injured civilians and damaged civilian infrastructure.
What happened in Odesa on 20 March 2025? Russia launched a massive drone attack on the city, as reported at the time, injuring civilians and damaging civilian infrastructure.
The strike was part of the wider Russian invasion of Ukraine and was listed among the attacks on Odesa during the war. The reports from that day did not give further figures on the number of drones or the number of people hurt.
Claims from Moscow two days earlier
On 18 March 2025, two days before the Odesa attack, the Russian Ministry of Defense claimed that Ukraine's Armed Forces had tried to launch an offensive on Belgorod Oblast with five assaults before Russian forces stopped them. The ministry characterised the alleged attacks as an attempt to discredit peace negotiations led by U.S. President Donald Trump.
