Russia’s attack on Odesa kills one, injures 18: Ukraine officials

Russia launched another wave of night attacks on the Black Sea port Odessa In the early hours of Sunday morning, Ukrainian officials said, one person was killed, 18 people were injured, including four children, and damage was caused to residential and religious infrastructure.

Odyssey: Another Night attacks Oleh Kipper, governor of the broader Odessa region in southern Ukraine for which the city of Odessa is the administrative centre, said on the messaging app Telegram.
Unfortunately one civilian was killed.”

Kepper said earlier that according to preliminary information, 14 people have been hospitalized, including three children.
Russia has been bombing Odessa and other Ukrainian food export facilities almost daily over the past week after Moscow withdrew from a UN-brokered sea corridor deal that allowed Ukrainian grain to be shipped safely.
Ukraine’s Air Force said on messaging app Telegram that Russia fired high-precision Onyx missiles and Kalibr missiles from the sea to shore over Odessa after midnight Sunday. The scale of the attack was not immediately known.
The Ukrainian news agency RBC reported that the city’s largest Orthodox church, the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral consecrated in 1809, was badly damaged in the attacks.
Videos on social media showed rubble inside a dark church-like building lit by a fire and a sad man walking and chanting, “The church no longer exists.”
Reuters could not independently verify the video or reports of possible damage. Russia had no immediate comment on the attacks.
Moscow described the attacks as retaliation for a Ukrainian strike on a Russian-built bridge to Crimea, a Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula that Moscow seized in 2014. It accused Ukraine of using the sea lane to launch “terrorist attacks”.