One person was killed and a famous cathedral was destroyed in a fresh round of Russian missile attacks on Odesa in southern Ukraine.
Authorities reported that 22 individuals, including several children, were hurt in the early-Sunday morning attacks. The Transfiguration Cathedral, which was constructed in the late 18th century, demolished by Joseph Stalin, and reconstructed in the early 2000s, was struck by one strike.
A cathedral hit
Following its withdrawal from the Black Sea grain project on Monday, which permitted Ukrainian grain to be delivered around the world from Odesa, Russia has been hammering the port city ever since.
Since then, the Russian military has declared its intent to demolish the infrastructure of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports and that any ships headed for Odesa may be viewed as participants in the fight and so legal targets.
- Russian missile attacks destroy cathedral in Odesa, Ukraine.
- Russian military targets Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, threatening legal targets.
- Russia’s missile attacks on Odesa aim to cut Ukraine’s access to the Black Sea and neutralize international efforts.
Russian Iskander, Kalibr, Onix, and other missiles, according to the Ukrainian military, were employed in the attacks on Sunday. Air defense systems blocked some, but several still made it through.
Oleh Kiper, the regional governor for Odesa, reported that the strikes on Sunday morning had damaged or destroyed six residential buildings.
The main goal of Russia’s missile attacks on Odesa and the surrounding area is an effort to cut off Ukraine’s access to the Black Sea, as well as to use intimidation to thwart and neutralize international efforts to restore the functionality of the grain corridor, according to Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s security council, who posted this on Facebook.
