Oleksandr Kovalenko / Information Resistance
On the night of March 28, the Russians launched a concentrated strike on Odesa and the region. The enemy launched from Cape Chauda, the Gvardiyskoe airfield, and Primorsko-Akhtarsky. The first launches were recorded between 19:00 and 20:00 on the evening of March 27. At the same time, reconnaissance activities were carried out starting at 13:40, initially using Orlan-10, and then by other means, including single launches of Shahed-136.
During the massive raid on Odesa and the region, civilian objects were affected, including Maternity Hospital No. 5. Notably, just the day before in Lviv, a maternity hospital was also hit by Russian kamikaze drones.
A coincidence of such targeted strikes with a difference of hundreds of kilometers between cities and merely a couple of days’ pause between raids? I don’t think it’s a coincidence. Socially sensitive targets were chosen to cultivate terror. Two concentrated strikes, and both on maternity hospitals?
Russian propaganda immediately justifies such strikes by claiming that it’s supposedly the work of air defenses and drones were shot down over buildings or objects where they fell and caused destruction. But in this particular case, this manipulation doesn’t work at all, since first a strike on Lviv, then on Odesa, and both on socially and medically significant objects.
While Ukraine strikes Russian military-industrial enterprises, the Votkinsk plant, Kremniy EL, refineries, air defense systems, drone storage bases, the Vyborg shipyard, the enemy starts hitting maternity hospitals.
The raid lasted until 08:40. And now, as I write and publish this material, the threat in the city continues due to sporadic raids during the day. A tactic we’ve seen before: a massive night raid and sporadic disturbances throughout the day.
The enemy continues systematic terror against the civilian population of Ukraine. Its main task now is intimidation and scaling panic moods. I see no other rationale for such strikes.
Separately, I want to note that, despite the destruction and casualties, as a result of last night’s raid, the Air Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine worked as effectively as possible and even at the limits of their capabilities, sometimes even exceeding them.
This was one of the most intense raids on Odesa and the region in recent months, and the negative effect from it was minimized compared to what the actual consequences could have been, given the number of means of terror used by Russia.
On the cover: Consequences of the shelling of Odesa on 28.03.2026. Photo: State Emergency Service of Odesa.
