Russia leveled part of an apartment building while residents slept on Friday in a missile attack near the Port of Ukraine Odesa which according to the authorities killed at least 21 people, a few hours after Russian troops left the Black Sea Post on Snake Island.
Residents in the village of Serhiivka Resort help the workers take debris from the Nine Floor Apartment Block, the part that has been destroyed in the morning strike.
Walls and windows of the 14 -storey Apartment Block Neighboring Apartment is damaged by a wave of explosion. The nearest holiday camp is also devastated.
We came here to the location, assessing the situation together with emergency workers and locals, and together -together helped those who survived. And those who unfortunately died. We helped bring him away,” said Oleksandr Abramov, who lived near him and rushed to The scene when he heard the explosion.
Serhiy Bretchuk, a spokesman for Regional Administration Odesa, said 21 people had been confirmed killed, including a 12 -year -old boy. Among the fatalities were employees of the Children’s Rehabilitation Center which was founded by Ukraine neighboring Moldova at the Resort.
I want to remind you of the president’s words that the Russian armed forces do not work with civilian targets,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
In his speech at night on Friday, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy condemned strikes in apartments and seaside sites as “consciously, deliberately targeting Russian terror and not a kind of mistake or a coincidence missile.”
The strike on Serhiivka occurred shortly after Russia withdrew his troops from Snake Island, an important outcrop strategically about 140 km (85 miles) Southeast Odesa who seized the first day of the war.
Ukraine General Chief of Staff Valeriy Zaluzhny accused Russia of failing to obey his statement that they had left Snake Island as a “good intention movement”. In his telegram channel, Zaluzhny said two Russian fighter aircraft had take off from the base in Crimea and bombed the target on the island on Friday night.
He posted a video about what he said was the attack. Reuters has no way to confirm Russian videos or action. There are no direct Russian comments.
Earlier this week, Russia crashed into a crowded shopping center in Central Ukraine, killing at least 19 people.
Kyiv said Moscow had intensified his long -range missile attacks, regarding civilian targets far from the front lines. Russia said it had aimed at military sites.
Thousands of civilians have been killed since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24. Russia calls the invasion as a “special operation” to eradicate nationalist. Ukraine and his Western allies say it is an unprotected aggression war.
In South Ukraine, Russian troops have occupied the Nuclear Factory Zaporizhhia, the largest in Europe, since March. On Friday, Ukraine’s nuclear power operator said that he had rebuilt its relationship with the interrupted surveillance system there. Communication has been lost twice since March and the UN Atom Supervisor wants to examine the factory.
Russian troops have used Snake Island to control the northwestern black sea and forced a blockade in Ukraine, one of the largest seed exporters in the world.
Moscow denied that that had to be blamed for the food crisis, which he said was caused by Western sanctions that injured his own exports.
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with the President of Indonesia on Thursday and spoke by telephone on Friday to the Prime Minister of India, promising the two large food importers that Russia would remain a large supplier of wheat.
Ukraine accused Russia of stealing seeds from territories that have been seized by Russian troops since the invasion.
