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April 29, 2024
Updated: April 30, 2024
As a result of the Russian attack on Odesa, three women and one man were killed. This was announced by Oleg Kiper, the head of Odesa OVA.
Another person later died in the hospital – a man born in 1960, Kiper said.
More than 30 people were injured. As of Tuesday morning, 23 victims continue to be treated in medical facilities. 8 people are in serious condition, 4 of them are in extremely serious condition, including a four-year-old girl, the head of the OVA said.
As a result of the attack, the vice-rector of the International Humanitarian University, Boris Vasiliev, was killed. reported in the institution
In Odesa, mourning was announced for those who died during the rocket attack.
As a result of the missile strike, the residence of politician Serhiy Kivalov, which is popularly called “Harry Potter’s castle”, caught fire. The Odesa Law Academy is located here, the rector of which is Kivalov.
The mass media report that a former deputy of the Party of Regions was also injured. There is a video on social networks of Kivalova being taken away by an ambulance.
Author of the photo, DSNS
Author of the photo, DSNS
Before the strike in southern Ukraine, a ballistic threat was announced.
Civil infrastructure and residential buildings were damaged in Odesa – the consequences are being clarified, the city council reported. Photos of bloodied bodies near the sea on the health route leading to the beach are being shared on social networks.
The dog died as a result of the shelling. A photo of the owner sobbing over the body of her dog circulated in the media.
“Odesa… People walk by the sea, and they shoot, kill. This is how they say … that they are defending themselves, killing children and people,” said the mayor of Odessa, Gennady Trukhanov.
There are shrapnel holes on the walls around the shelling site in Odesa, Dmytro Pletenchuk, spokesman for the Southern Defense Forces, said. Most likely, the Russian military used weapons intended for the “destruction of manpower” for the attack on Odesa, says Pletenchuk.
The Russians have been shelling Odesa since the first days of the invasion.
Rockets hit the city on April 24. Then one woman was injured. About 30 houses were damaged.
On the night of April 23 to 24, children aged 12 and 9 and two children, who are not even a year old, were injured by a drone attack in Odesa.
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Enhanced attacks
On the night of April 26-27, Russia launched an unusual combined missile attack on Ukraine. Rockets from Tu-95MS and “daggers” attacked Stryi near Lviv, Prykarpattia and Dnipro. The main goal was energy.
That night it was possible to shoot down 6 out of 8 Kalibr cruise missiles flying from the Black Sea. These sea-based missiles have not flown into Ukraine for a long time.
Russia attacked four thermal power plants of DTEK, where “equipment was seriously damaged.”
Attacks on energy facilities were reported in Dnipropetrovsk region, there are also water supply interruptions, in Lviv region and Prykarpattia.
Photo author, ODESKA OVA
Photo caption Consequences of shelling of Odessa in March
In the spring of 2024, Russia began a new campaign to destroy the Ukrainian energy industry – it destroyed at least three thermal power plants near Kharkiv, Burshtyn and Kyiv. A number of hydroelectric power plants were also significantly damaged, in particular in Zaporizhzhia and Kanev.
That is, Russia focused on the destruction of shunting generation, which helped to survive the peak loads of the network.
The authorities announced huge destruction of the energy sector, and in many areas it was necessary to introduce schedules for turning off electricity. In general, Kharkiv found itself on the verge of an energy disaster.
On March 21, after a month-long break, Russia carried out the first massive spring strike that hit Kyiv. 17 people were injured in the capital and the region, but the rockets were shot down.
Residential buildings, kindergartens and industrial facilities were destroyed in Kyiv and the region.