No fewer than 30 people were inflicted with various degrees of injuries when two Russian missiles hit a nine-story apartment building and a resort very close to the Black Sea port city early Friday morning, less than 24 hours after Ukraine retook Snake Island.
According to a statement from Kyiv, ‘a Russian missile struck a multi-story apartment building near the Black Sea port of Odesa early on Friday, killing at least 14 people and injuring 30’.
Ukraine further claimed that another missile hit two buildings of a recreational centre in the region killing no fewer than three people and injuring another who is presently receiving treatment.
The hit came a day after Russia’s defence ministry announced its troops had withdrawn from Snake Island in the Black Sea as a “gesture of goodwill” aimed at demonstrating Moscow’s support for restarting food exports from Ukraine’s ports.
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Moscow kept up its push to take control of Lysychansk on Thursday, the last remaining Ukrainian stronghold in Luhansk province, with Russia’s separatist proxies claiming they had entered the city.
A second missile that hit Odesa’s Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi district has killed three people, including one child, and injured one other person, Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs says.
The second missile hit a three-story and a four-story building of a recreation centre, the ministry said on Twitter.
The toll from the missile strike that hit a nine-story building in Odesa early Friday has risen to 14 people dead and 30 wounded, according to Ukraine’s Ministry for Internal Affairs.
The strike occurred at about 1am in a village in the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi district of Odesa, the ministry said on Twitter.
A Ukrainian brigadier general has estimated that Russia had hit 68 civilian sites in the second half of June.
Oleksii Hromov earlier said the number of Russian missile strikes on Ukraine had more than doubled in the last two weeks and that Moscow was using inaccurate Soviet-era missiles for more than half of the attacks.
Russia used a Soviet-era Kh-22 missile in the strike on the crowded shopping mall in the central city of Kremenchuk on Monday, which killed at least 18 people according to Ukrainian authorities.
Africa Today News, New York reports that Russia has consistently denies targeting civilians.