“Today the enemy struck from Crimea by a Bastion coastal defense missile system,” without causing any casualties, the governor said.
Odessa airport in southern Ukraine was hit on Saturday by a Russian missile that destroyed the runway, causing no casualties, regional governor Maxim Marchenko said.
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“Today the enemy struck from the Crimea by a Bastion coastal defense missile system. The runway at Odessa airport was destroyed. Thank God there were no casualties“said the governor in a video on his Telegram account.
“High Precision Missiles”
Eight people were killed in Russian strikes a week ago on the historic city of Odessa of nearly a million inhabitants, so far relatively spared from the fighting.
The Russian army then claimed to have targeted withhigh precision missiles» a large depot of weapons delivered to the Ukrainian forces by the United States and European countries, near Odessa.
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On April 10, the airport of Dnipro, an industrial city of one million inhabitants in eastern Ukraine, wascompletely destroyedby Russian bombing, according to regional authorities.