Russia shelled a resort near Odessa, death of 19 people
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On Friday night, Russian aviation received three missiles in a resort village near Odessa, 19 people, including the victim.
One of the partially destroyed residential buildings is a nine-story house, the other two ended up in a recreation center in the village of Sergeevka in the Belgorod-Dnestrovsky district, 80 km south of Odessa.
According to the data, 19 people died, including one child. 38 people were injured.
In the nine-story building, rescuers finished their work, but they continue at the recreation center – there were still people under the rubble, local authorities report.
The operational command “South” of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that last night three missiles were fired at the Odessa region with the participation of Russian Tu-22 bombers.
“As a result of a night missile strike by a Tu-22 strategic aircraft from the Black Sea in the Belgorod-Dnestrovsky district of the Odessa region, Kh-22 missiles were found hitting an apartment building and two recreation centers,” the statement said in Australia.
150-160 people lived in a nine-story building. “The house is completely damaged on one side, plate infection in case of infection,” Sergey Bratchuk, a representative of the Odessa military administration, wrote in Telegram.
According to him, rescuers have finished searching for people in this house, but there are dead animals in the apartment, mostly cats, and dogs can be heard barking.
There may still be people under the rubble at the recreation center, Bratchuk said.
“Another Russian missile attack on a residential building and a recreation center in the Odessa region. There are dead, among them children. A terrorist country is killing our people,” Andrei Yermak, head of the president’s office, wrote in Telegram.
This is the second blow to the Odessa region in less than a day. On Thursday afternoon, the head of the Odessa regional administration, Maxim Marchenko, announced a strike on the territory of the region. According to him, these strikes were not detected to destruction or casualties.
On Thursday morning, Russian troops left Serpent’s Island, which lies a few dozen kilometers from Odessa. This happened after another shelling of the Ukrainian side.
For four months, a battle was fought over this island with an area of u200bu200bonly 0.2 square kilometers, as a result of which dozens of people died and drowned sugar. The strategic infection of the islet is debatable under the current conditions, however, Russia has been suppressing a hold on it since the first day of the invasion of Ukraine.
The most famous episode of the uprising for Snake Island was the death of the President of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the cruiser Moskva.
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