Fourteen people were killed in a missile attack on a building in the Odessa region, in southern Ukraine, fired by a “strategic plane” from the Black Sea according to kyiv, when the Ukrainian army comes to take back from the Russians a strategic island for the control of maritime routes.
Now “there are 14 people dead and 30 injured, including three children,” the Ukrainian Emergency Services said in a statement, adding that rescue operations, complicated by a fire, are continuing.
“A missile hit a nine-storey residential building in the Bilgorod-Dniester region,” about 80 km south of Odessa, Odessa region administration spokesman Sergey Brachuk had earlier announced. .
This strike came as NATO pledged its unwavering support to Ukraine by closing its summit in Madrid on Thursday.