Three people injured in missile strike on Ukraine’s Odesa region

Three civilians were injured in a missile strike on Ukraine’s Odesa region, a spokesman for the Odesa regional administration Serhiy Bratchuk said.

“The enemy fired missiles on Odesa region overnight. A recreation centre and several residential houses were damaged after two missiles had hit the target. Fires erupted there,” Bratchuk stated.

Three local residents who were injured in the strikes sought medical aid. The rescue operation continues.

Several blasts rocked Mykolaiv overnight, city mayor Oleksandr Senkevich said.

“Civilian objects and residential buildings were damaged in the attacks,” he stated.

The Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University was partially destroyed in the strikes.

“Several days ago, I published a video showing that there is no military base there. Regular university workers work there: they accept student applications, sign documents and hand out diplomas. Tonight, two Russian missiles hit the university,” Senkevich wrote.

There was no one on the premises at the moment of the attack except one guard, he was not injured.

Head of the Dnipro region Valentyn Reznichenko also reported attacks on the Kryvyi Rih and Nikopol districts.

“The Nikopol district was attacked thrice overnight. There were eight shots fired from cannon artillery by the enemy on Nikopol. Six residential houses were destroyed, along with cars and a gas pipeline. The people are safe,” the official said.

He added that at least 40 projectiles had been launched from Grad multiple rocket launchers on the Chervonohryhorivka district. A local enterprise building and power lines were damaged as a result of the attacks.

Reznichenko reports that the Kryvyi Rih district was targeted with Uragan multiple rocket launchers. No one was injured, and no buildings were damaged in the attacks.

Yesterday, a local woman was killed in an attack on Ukraine’s Orikhiv, head of the Zaporizhzhia region Oleksandr Starukh said.

Six people were injured, three of them were power company workers that were fixing damaged power lines.