Russian air strikes wound eight in Odesa, damage museum, port, Ukrainian officials say
Russia launched a major air attack on the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa late on Sunday, wounding at least eight people, setting ablaze trucks loaded with grain and damaging one of the city's principal art galleries, officials said, Reuters reports.
About 20 multi-storey buildings and more than two dozen cars were damaged in the attack, the Interior Ministry said. Air defences shot down 15 out of 22 incoming Iranian-made "Shahed" drones and an X-59 missile, the air force said.
#Odesa art museum today after russian missile and drone attack on city. Pictures of outside damage are yet to come, but it’s known already that the roadway near the museum gate is destroyed, as well as tram tracks, sidewalk, electricity poles. And the water pipe for broken- there… pic.twitter.com/VsicuPivj7
— Julia Gorodetskaya (@gorodetskaya) November 5, 2023
Odesa Governor Oleh Kiper said 15 drones targeted the city's port infrastructure. Warehouses and specialised vehicles were also damaged, and trucks carrying grain caught fire, though they were quickly put out, he said.
Russia has intensified its bombardments of Ukrainian ports, including Odesa, and grain infrastructure since July when Moscow pulled out of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, a wartime deal that enabled Ukraine’s exports to reach many countries facing the threat of hunger.
