On the night of Monday, November 6, Russian troops launched a missile attack on the center of Odessa, as a result of which eight people were injured. About it reported head of the regional military administration Oleg Kiper.
According to Kiper, Russian troops attacked Odessa with different types of missiles and attack drones. In the victims recorded shrapnel wounds, five of them were hospitalized, the rest were treated by doctors provided the official added assistance on the spot.
In addition, during the strike on the city center suffered The building of the Art Museum, which is a UNESCO cultural heritage site, turns 124 years old today. The blast wave damaged several multi-storey buildings in the historical part of the city.
Also, one of the missiles hit an industrial facility, which, as Kiper clarified, is no longer in use.
“The Russians sent attack drones “Shahed-131/136” along the port infrastructure of Odessa. 15 drones destroyed our air defense forces. The impact damaged warehouses, unloading special equipment, and cars with grain. The fire was quickly extinguished,” he emphasized.
A day earlier, Russian troops launched a missile attack on the Odessa region. According to Oleg Kiper, the target of the attack was civilian shipping. According to him, as a result of the attack, an infrastructure facility was damaged and three employees were injured. In addition, the administrative building was damaged, and windows in residential buildings were broken by the blast wave.
The command of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that on the night of November 5-6, Ukrainian air defense forces shot down one Kh-59 guided missile and 15 Shahed-type drones. In total, Russian troops fired two cruise, one ballistic (Iskander-M) and one anti-ship (Onyx) missiles, as well as 22 attack drones, into Ukraine during this period.
Russian troops intensified shelling of the Odessa region in the summer of 2023, when the Russian Federation officially withdrew from the agreement on the organization of a grain corridor, through which grain from Ukraine was sent by sea through Turkey to foreign countries. Since then, Russian troops have been striking Odessa’s port infrastructure almost weekly with missiles and kamikaze drones.
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2023-11-06 06:26:26
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