Ukraine: Russian bombing in Odessa killed at least 14 people and injured 46

Footage of the tragedy shows rescuers in a state of shock, their eyes lost and their hands covered in blood. A Russian missile strike this Friday in Odessa, a port city in southern Ukraine, killed at least 14 people and injured 46, according to the latest upwardly revised report released by the region’s governor, Oleg Kiper.

“The Russian missile attack killed 14 people, including local residents, a paramedic and a rescue worker,” he said on Telegram, adding that another 46 people were injured, including seven emergency services workers. According to the Ukrainian Prosecutor’s Office, residential buildings and vehicles were damaged. According to the regional governor, an ambulance driver and a rescuer “arrived at the scene after the first explosion to provide assistance.”

A couple died in another region

Earlier, Ukrainian police said that as a result of night attacks by Russian drones in the Vinnytsia region (Central-West), a couple was killed and two teenagers were injured. “A 52-year-old man was killed and his 53-year-old wife died in hospital” in the area, more than 400 km from the front line, police said in a press release. In southern Ukraine, a 76-year-old woman was killed by a Russian bomb on Friday in the Zaporozhye region, the regional administration said.

“Russian terror in Odessa is a sign of the weakness of the enemy, who is fighting against the Ukrainian civilian population at a time when he cannot guarantee the safety of people on his territory,” Ukrainian President Andriy Ermak responded to recent events. incursions of pro-Ukrainian Russian soldiers into Russian villages near the Ukrainian border. This Friday, the Russian army assured that it had driven back all pro-Kiev militants from its territory.

On the contrary, according to the territory’s governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, a Ukrainian strike this Friday in the Russian city of Belgorod, which borders Ukraine, killed one Russian civilian and wounded two. Earlier in the day, he announced the death of a Russian militant in a Ukrainian bombing in a small border village in the same region.

Occupation authorities installed by Moscow said this morning that three children had died in overnight Ukrainian bombing in Donetsk, a city in the east controlled by Russia.