On the morning of November 25, Russian invaders launched a missile strike on Odesa. Residential buildings were hit.
Oleg Kiper, the head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration, reported this.
“Russian terrorists carried out a missile attack on the city center of Odesa. There are casualties. Civil infrastructure has been damaged, including residential buildings,” the message states.
According to preliminary information from the spokesperson of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army "South," Sergiy Bratchuk, a ballistic missile "Iskander-M" was used.
As Ukrinform reports, Oleksandr Kharlov, the first deputy head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration, announced that five people were injured as a result of the missile strike by the Russian Federation on the city center of Odesa. The injured were hospitalized.
“The area is densely populated, with a dental clinic and a pharmacy nearby; there are no indications that military personnel or any other targets of interest to the enemy are present here. I believe that the primary goal of the enemy is likely to intimidate the civilian population of Odesa,” he wrote.
As reported by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, there are currently 19 known casualties.
“Dozens of strike drones attacked Zaporizhzhia. A child has been injured. Odesa has been attacked, and there is damage due to falling missile debris,” he wrote.
Background. Earlier, Mind reported that in Kharkiv, Russian forces struck the Kyiv district on the morning of Monday, November 25. Hits on the ground were recorded. Three vehicles and the facades of non-residential buildings were damaged by fire. Explosive injuries were sustained by 23 individuals aged 21 to 71. Sixteen injured were taken to the hospital.