The expectation finally happened: soon, Russian ships assigned to the Black Sea would direct their missiles towards the downtown area of ​​the city of Odessa. On Monday afternoon the Ukrainian authorities Side effects and deaths were reported.

At least one missile hit the temple of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which belongs to the Moscow Patriarchate. His roof was destroyed and until last night it was learned that among the dead victims was at least one 15-year-old man. A 13-year-old girl was hospitalized.

“Today, the enemy fired a missile at one of the Odessa installations. Unfortunately, some were killed and wounded,” city authorities said in a brief statement made public on Facebook. They later reported: “A missile attack in Odessa damaged a building where five people were staying. A 15-year-old boy died, another minor was taken to hospital.

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They did not provide details about what happened to the other three occupants of the building. Odessa was completely deserted on Monday, as city authorities announced a curfew to carry out counter-sabotage actions.

Because there was no one on the street. If the attack happened on a normal business day, we will talk about a tragedy of proportions since the so-called “green zone” of Odessa, cultural center of the city, he looked these days in full motion despite the war.

The group of Clarion covering the war in Ukraine was in the city until Sunday night.

The first reading was that the attack could be a response of the Russian naval fleet to the sinking of two of its ships, made on Monday morning by Ukrainian special forces.

Very early, the army announced the destruction of two Russian patrol boats sailing in the Black Sea due to the fire that allegedly occurred. from two Ukrainian planes unmanned vehicles, Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Valerii Zaluzhnyi said on his Telegram channel.

As Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform later reported, “two Russian Raptor-class ships were destroyed near Zmiinyi (Snake) Island in the early hours of Monday.”

other attacks

Snake Island is an iconic site for Ukrainians. Here came the phrase “Russia’s ship, go to hell”, which became something like the great motto of the country’s patriotic attitude in its war against the Russians.

Furthermore, the rate of drip attacks against Odessa continues to rise. Some are counted within a few days. The first and deadliest was the building a few kilometers from town. It happened on Orthodox Easter Saturday, ten days ago, and ten people died here.

Among them, a complete family and also a man smoking a cigarette inside his car. Clarín visited the place and confirmed the scene of the destruction.

Another attack took place a few days later against a strategic target: the Zatoka bridge, which connects Odessa on the road to the border of Moldova and Romania. Sent from Clarion They also visited the area, which was notably attacked again on Monday.

On Saturday, Odessa registered another accurate attack on a particular target: three missiles then hit the runway from its airport, which becomes completely disabled. It is known that the Kremlin prefers Odessa because it is the most important economic port in the region.

Odessa is not only the cultural capital of Ukraine, but also the gateway for 50 percent of its exports and a major point of contact with the West.

From the beginning of the war there was talk of a landing on the coast of the city. But the fact is that the city has become a renowned fortress. It is completely covered.

Clarín toured it in recent days and found that there was no way to avoid the defenses built by the Ukrainians in their ravines, on their shores and in the horse-shaped bay, where the deployment of the navy was overwhelming. .

Similarly, the historic city center, where the Opera building is located, looks impossible to break, with soldiers and barricades everywhere. In Odessa took a cell phone and Soldiers later appeared asking them to delete the photos.

They hit him from the air, with a missile in the middle, indicating that his aircraft defenses would not be as effective or that in this case they had failed. However, missiles are the weapons that the Russians can currently demonstrate capable of inflicting some type of damage.

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