Watch the video: Russian rocket as “congratulations” – art museum in Odessa fired at on anniversary.
According to the region’s governor, several people were injured in a Russian missile attack on Odessa in southern Ukraine. In addition, one of the city’s most important museums was damaged. The Odessa National Art Museum celebrates its 124th birthday on Monday, Governor Oleh Kiper wrote on Telegram. And on the eve of the anniversary, the Russians ‘congratulated’ the architectural monument with a rocket.” The walls and windows of the museum in one of the city’s oldest palaces were damaged. According to the authorities, a rocket caused a crater several meters deep in the building Near the museum. Odessa Mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov. “Our pearl, the National Art Museum of our city. Today we saw once again how the barbarians treat our cultural heritage. The church there and the museum are in a UNESCO zone. There’s really nothing they shy away from.” The museum housed more than 10,000 works of art before the war, including paintings by some of the most prominent Russian and Ukrainian artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.