The region’s governor, Maxim Marchenko, announced that the airport of Odessa, a port city in southern Ukraine, was hit on Saturday by a Russian strike that destroyed the runway without causing any casualties.
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Today the enemy struck from the Crimea with the Bastion coastal defense missile system. The runway at Odessa airport was destroyed. “Thank God, there were no injuries,” the governor said in a video clip on his Telegram account.
Eight people were killed in Russian strikes a week ago on the historic city of Odessa, which has a population of nearly one million, and has so far survived the fighting.
Then the Russian military claimed that it had targeted “high-precision missiles” a large depot of weapons handed over to Ukrainian forces by the United States and European countries, near Odessa.
Dnipro airport, the industrial city of eastern Ukraine of one million people, was “totally destroyed” on April 10 by Russian bombing, according to regional authorities.
