At least six people killed in missile strikes in Odessa

At least six people have died this Saturday after two cruise missiles hit a residential neighborhood on the outskirts of Odessato the east of Ukraine. The authorities of the port city, which overlooks the Black Seahave explained that the magnitude of the damage will cause the number of victims to increase.

Among the six victims there is a three-month-old baby, according to Andriy Yermak, head of the presidential administration. Another 18 people have been injured.

The government of the Ukrainian city has published images on its Telegram channel in which a large housing complex in the Tairove district is seen under columns of black smoke. “All this occurs while peaceful Odessa was preparing for the Easter Sunday“, has indicated its mayor, Gennady Trukhanov. Both military and civilians hoped that this weekend there would be a decrease in Russian bombing on the occasion of the holiday celebrated by the country’s Orthodox Christians.

Until now, Odessa would have been spared attacks by Russia against residential areas where civilians live and had only suffered them against military targets and strategic infrastructure. That has changed with the missiles launched this Saturday by a Russian strategic bomber Tu-95 that was flying over the Caspian Sea and that have killed at least six people. “The only goal of Russian missile attacks on Odessa is terror,” Ukraine’s Foreign Minister tweeted. Dmytro Kuleba.

The port city seemed to be one of the main targets of Moscow. However, the Ukrainian resistance has slowed the advance of the russian troops in recent weeks, even managing to sink the Russian warship Moscowwith which it was speculated that the kremlin could throw a amphibious attack about Odessa. Further east, in Khersontwo Russian generals have been killed, as reported by the intelligence directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.

Meanwhile, the war continues throughout the Ukraine in different intensities. Russian troops continue to gain ground in the port city of Mariupol. This Saturday, Moscow would have relaunched its offensive against the Azovstal steel mill, one of the last bastions of resistance in the town and close to the port that overlooks the Sea of ​​Azov.

Mariúpol has been under siege since practically the beginning of the invasion, on February 24. Since then, according to kyiv, at least 20,000 people have died, of which half have been buried in mass graves. Some 100,000 civilians remain trapped in the city. This Saturday there was to be a civilian evacuation, but finally it has not been carried out, something that the mayor of the city has attributed to Russia. The authorities have also reported that more than 300 people, including 90 children, were forcibly deported to Russian territory.

The Ukrainian General Staff has confirmed a new Russian offensive on the front of the region of the donbasin eastern Ukraine, where the self-proclaimed breakaway republics of Donetsk Y Lugansk. The fighting is focusing on the cities of Sievierodonetsk, Rubizhne, Popasna and Marinka.