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Ukrainian emergency services announced Friday morning that rocket attacks have hit residential buildings in Ukraine’s Odesa region, killing 17 and injuring dozens more.
“The number of dead in the building has reached 17,” said Odessa military administration spokesman Sergei Bratchuk, adding that the missile was fired from a plane coming from the Black Sea.
Video of Friday’s attack showed the burning ruins of buildings in Odesa.
A second rocket that hit the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi district of Odesa killed three people, including a child, and injured another person, according to a statement by Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The second rocket hit the three- and four-story buildings of a recreation center, the ministry said on Twitter.
The attack comes after Russian forces withdrew Thursday from Snake Island, a key Black Sea island, potentially easing the threat to the Ukrainian port city of Odesa. But Russian forces continued their offensive to surround the last bastion of resistance in the eastern province of Luhansutk.
According to the statement of a Ukrainian general, Russia has hit 68 civilian objects in the second half of June.
Oleksii Hromov earlier said that the number of Russian missile attacks on Ukraine had doubled in the past two weeks and that Moscow was using Soviet-era low-precision missiles in more than half of the attacks.
Russia used a Soviet-era Kh-22 missile in the attack on the crowded shopping mall in the central city of Kremenchuk on Monday, killing at least 18 people, according to Ukrainian authorities.
Russia has consistently denied targeting civilians.
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