At least ten people, including seven police officers and a health worker, died and 39 others were injured this Monday in Odessa In a missile attack of Russia against a residential area of the city, according to a press release from the Ukrainian police.
Among the injured are 14 police officers and four minors, according to the press release.
At the beginning, the municipal authorities had given a provisional toll of 8 deaths.
The only way to truly end this terror is to eliminate Russia’s ability to launch attacks. And it’s absolutely realistic.
Today, Russia struck Odessa with a missile, deliberately targeting a residential area. As a result of this barbaric act, innocent lives were lost, and many people… pic.twitter.com/5Isl7F3hxV
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) November 18, 2024
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, condemned this new attack by Russia against the city of Odessa on its social networks.
“Strike of Russian terrorists with a ballistic missile against Odessa, against a residential area,” Zelensky wrote on his Telegram channel.
According to the Ukrainian presidentthe missile landed in a park and caused damage to a residential building, a university and an administrative building.
Zelensky added that This is not an “accidental attack”. and described the attack as “exemplary”.
“After the calls and meetings with Putin, after all these comments in the media about his supposed “renunciation” of the attacks, Russia is showing what it really cares about: only war,” Zelensky said, referring to the calls made by the president. -the elected representative of the United States had in recent days with the Russian president, Donald Trumpand the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz.
Zelensky asked leaders attending the G20 summit in Brazil to “listen” to the message sent by Putin’s attack.
Daylight attack on Odessa comes hours later Another Russian missile killed 11 people last night in the town of Sumiin the northeast of Ukraine.
In the early hours of Sunday, Russian forces destroyed Ukrainian electricity infrastructure with one of the most massive attacks of this war, during which 120 missiles and 90 drones were used.
Also this Sunday, we learned that US President Joe Biden had given kyiv the green light to use long-range American missiles to attack Russian soil.
