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Russian Strikes Kill Two Women in Odesa

Attacks on November 13 damaged homes and cars, with six people injured.

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Russian Strikes Kill 2 Women in Odesa, Injure 6 Others

What this story says

  • Two women were killed and six people were injured in Russian strikes on Odesa on Friday, November 13.
  • The attacks damaged private homes and cars, and caused a house fire.
  • Regional Governor Oleh Kiper reported the casualties, with the prosecutor's office identifying the deceased as women aged 44 and 50.
  • A separate Russian attack on the southern part of the Odesa region on Thursday evening injured four people.

Who covered it

Left 50%(4)Centre 37%(3)Right 13%(1)

Percentages are shares of the 8 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 12 of the 20 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

58/100

Craft

60/100

Hype

45/100

20 sources · methodology

Thin on the right so far

Only 1 of the 8 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated right.

This story is still being watched, so it is a count and not yet a finding. Coverage keeps arriving for hours after an event, and a side that has published nothing this morning may publish by tonight. If it is still true when we stop checking, we will say so plainly.

Russian forces launched strikes on Odesa on Friday morning, November 13, resulting in the deaths of two women and injuries to six others. The attacks also caused damage to private homes and cars, and ignited a house fire. Regional Governor Oleh Kiper initially reported two fatalities and five hospitalised individuals, but the Odesa regional prosecutor’s spokeswoman, Inna Verba, later confirmed six injured.

Verba identified the women killed as aged 44 and 50. The injured included four women aged between 47 and 73, and two men aged 24 and 42. According to Verba's later account, all six were hospitalised with moderate injuries. Governor Kiper had previously described two of the five injured in his initial report as being in serious condition.

The State Emergency Service reported that a one-story private house was destroyed and caught fire, with firefighters extinguishing the blaze. At a separate location, an impact in an open area damaged 11 passenger cars. Emergency service psychologists were present at the scene.

These strikes followed a separate Russian attack on the southern part of the Odesa region on Thursday evening, November 12. That attack hit a production building at a furniture business, starting a fire and injuring four people, two of whom were hospitalised. The State Emergency Service reported that attack also damaged windows in an apartment building and destroyed a truck and trailer.

Disagreement on number of injured

Regional Governor Oleh Kiper initially stated that five people had been hospitalised following the Friday morning strikes. However, Odesa regional prosecutor’s spokeswoman Inna Verba later told Suspilne that six people were injured. The Kyiv Post reported Verba's later account of six injured, while also noting Kiper's earlier description of two of the five injured as being in serious condition.

Omissions

None of the left-rated digests mention the separate Russian attack on the southern part of the Odesa region on Thursday evening, November 12, which injured four people. The centre-rated digests did not mention this separate attack either. The right-rated digest did not mention this separate attack.

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Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 8 times, most recently on 13 Nov 2026, 13:45, and will add the sides that appear.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

4 rated outlets

  • The left-rated reports led with the fatalities and injuries resulting from the Russian strikes on Odesa. Kyiv Post, in its full report, detailed the casualties, damage to homes and cars, and the subsequent fire, attributing information to local officials including Governor Oleh Kiper and prosecutor’s spokeswoman Inna Verba. It also provided specific ages for the deceased and injured. The reports from unn.ua and fakti.bg, both digests, also focused on the number of dead and injured, with fakti.bg noting that five people were hospitalised and mentioning damage to a residential building and cars. rbc.ua's digest also highlighted that drones attacked Odesa, resulting in deaths and injuries, and mentioned damage to a private residential home.

Centre

3 rated outlets

  • The centre-rated reports focused on the immediate casualties and damage from the Russian attack. ZN.UA's headline stated that Russians were attacking Odesa with drones and that there were already dead and wounded, with its digest quoting Governor Oleg Kiper on the damage to a private residential building and the increase in fatalities to two, with five injured hospitalised. Hola News's digest reported two killed and seven injured in the attack on a residential area, citing Governor Oleg Kiper and the Ukrainian Prosecutor’s Office identifying the fatalities as women aged 44 and 5. 15min.lt's digest also reported two killed and five injured in a Russian drone strike.

Right

1 rated outlet

  • The single right-rated report, Korrespondent.net, focused on the casualties. Its digest stated that the Russian attack on Odesa killed two people and injured five others, with two of the injured in serious condition.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Russian Strikes Kill Two Women in Odesa?
Of the 8 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 50% are rated left, 37% are rated centre, 13% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 20. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Russian Strikes Kill Two Women in Odesa left or right?
Too few of the outlets on this story carry a published leaning rating to say. 8 of them do, and this site does not characterise a field under 12: at that size one newsroom filing moves the share by ten points. The percentages above are the count as it stands.
Is the coverage of Russian Strikes Kill Two Women in Odesa biased?
Russian Strikes Kill Two Women in Odesa is one event reported by 20 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Russian Strikes Kill Two Women in Odesa?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated right had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Russian Strikes Kill Two Women in Odesa?
20 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
How many people were killed and injured in the Odesa strikes?
Two women were killed and six people were injured in the Russian strikes on Odesa on Friday, November 13. The injured were hospitalised with moderate injuries.
What damage was caused by the attacks?
The Russian strikes damaged private homes and cars, and sparked a house fire. A one-story private residential building was destroyed, and 11 passenger cars were damaged at another location.
Were there other Russian attacks in the region?
Yes, a separate Russian attack on the southern part of the Odesa region on Thursday evening, November 12, injured four people. That attack also damaged windows in an apartment building and destroyed a truck and trailer.

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Right

1

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