Sergey Bratchuk, spokesman for the regional military administration, told the “Unian” portal that the 15-year-old, one of the two victims of the military operation who died in the Russian offensive in Odessa on Monday, died while trying to save his elderly neighbors.

According to the representative, the young man received a warning on his mobile phone that there would be an airstrike in the area and advised him to hide in the bunkers. However, his neighbors did not have access to this information, so he hastened to warn them.

“A dormitory in Odessa was wrecked and a 15-year-old boy died. We know that his elderly neighbors, who did not have an alarm on their phones, rushed to their house. He managed to warn the neighbors, but he did not survive,” he explained. still Brachuk.

The missile attack in Odessa, which has been bombed more frequently for nearly two weeks, hit an Orthodox church this Monday, which has lost its entire roof, next to a military building containing weapons.

Odessa, one of the most important port cities of Ukraine, is located in the southern part of the country, close to the Crimean peninsula, which was unilaterally annexed by the Russians in 2014. The current phase of Moscow’s attacks is aimed precisely at the south and east. To create an area connecting Crimea to the separatist regions of Donbass and blocking Kiev’s access to the sea.