21 Killed In Ukraine’s Odessa After Russian Missile Strike
21 Killed In Ukraine's Odessa After Russian Missile Strike
Ukraine: Russia leveled a part of an apartment building while residents slept on Friday in a missile attack near the Port of Ukraine Odesa which according to the authorities killed at least 21 people, a few hours after Russian troops left the Black Sea Post on Snake Island.
Residents in the village of Serhiivka Resort help the workers take debris from the Nine Floor Apartment Block, the part that has been destroyed in the morning strike.
Walls and windows of the 14 -storey Apartment Block Neighboring Apartment is damaged by a wave of explosion. The nearest holiday camp is also devastated.
“We came here to the location, assessing the situation together with emergency workers and locals, and together -together helped those who survived. And those who unfortunately died. We helped bring him away,” said Oleksandr Abramov, who lived near him and rushed to The scene when he heard the explosion.
Serhiy Bretchuk, a spokesman for Regional Administration Odesa, said 21 people had been confirmed killed, including a 12 -year -old boy. Among the fatalities were employees of the Children’s Rehabilitation Center which was founded by Ukraine neighboring Moldova at the Resort.
The regional governor said the missile had been fired from the black sea.
Kremlin denied targeting civilians.
“I want to remind you of the president’s words that the Russian armed forces do not work with civilian targets,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
Long-Range Attacks Intensify
In his nightly video address on Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy denounced the strike on the apartments and seaside site as “conscious, deliberately targeted Russian terror and not some sort of error or a coincidental missile strike.”
The strike on Serhiivka took place shortly after Russia pulled its troops off Snake Island, a strategically important outcrop about 140 km (85 miles) southeast of Odesa that it seized on the war’s first day.
Chief of Ukraine’s General Staff Valeriy Zaluzhny accused Russia of failing to abide by its assertions that it had left Snake Island as a “gesture of good will”. On his Telegram channel, Zaluzhny said two Russian warplanes had taken off from a base in Crimea and bombed targets on the island on Friday evening.
He posted a video of what he said was the attack. Reuters had no way of confirming the video or the Russian action. There was no immediate Russian comment.
Earlier this week, Russia struck a crowded shopping mall in central Ukraine, killing at least 19 people.
Kyiv says Moscow has intensified its long-range missile attacks, hitting civilian targets far from the frontline. Russia says it has been aiming at military sites.
Thousands of civilians have been killed since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24. Russia calls the invasion a “special operation” to root out nationalists. Ukraine and its Western allies say it is an unprovoked war of aggression.
In southern Ukraine, Russian forces have occupied the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Europe’s largest, since March. On Friday, Ukraine’s nuclear power operator said it had re-established its connection to surveillance systems there that had been cut off. Communications have been lost twice since March and the UN’s atomic watchdog wants to inspect the plant.
Food Supply
Russian troops have used Snake Island to control the northwestern black sea and forced a blockade in Ukraine, one of the largest seed exporters in the world.
Moscow denied that that had to be blamed for the food crisis, which he said was caused by Western sanctions that injured his own exports.
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with the President of Indonesia on Thursday and spoke by telephone on Friday to the Prime Minister of India, promising the two large food importers that Russia would remain a large supplier of wheat.
Ukraine accused Russia of stealing seeds from territories that have been seized by Russian troops since the invasion.
It is said that a Russian-flagged cargo ship, Zhibek Zholy, has left the port of Dyansk occupied by Russia with the load of ukraine grains. Kyiv asked Turkey to hold the ship, according to officials and Ukraine documents seen by Reuters.
A official installed by Russia said on Thursday that after a few months the first cargo ship left the port of Dyansk but he did not mention the name Zhibek Zholy.
Kremlin previously denied stealing seeds and did not reply to requests for comments on Friday.
No Gas, Electricity, Water
The Russian missile attack campaign stepped over the cities of Ukraine to coincide with its troops overthrow success on the battlefield in the East, with the aim of forcing Ukraine to surrender the provinces of Luhanansk and Donetsk.
Moscow has been on the verge of capturing Luhanansk since taking the city of Sievierodonetsk last week after some of the toughest battles in the war.
The last fortress of Ukraine in Luhanansk is the city of Lysychansk across the Siverskyi Donets river, which is almost surrounded by a series of Russian artillery.
In Sievierodonetsk occupied by Russia, residents emerged from the basement to filter out the debris of their city.
“Almost all city infrastructure has been destroyed. We live without gas, electricity and water since May,” Sergei Oleeinik, 65, told Reuters.
It takes more weapons in East and South Ukraine, said Zelenskiy, when the Pentagon announced the United States sent two surface-to-air missile systems, four additional radars and ammunition as part of the latest weapons package.
“We have worked very hard to be provided,” said Zelenskiy.
