A regional administration spokesman says Russian missiles hit one of Odesa’s “critical infrastructure facilities.”
“We hope there will be no casualties,” Sergey Bratchuk tells Ukraine’s public broadcaster, according to the Reuters news agency.
The blasts earlier this morning sent up at least three columns of black smoke with flames visible apparently in an industrial area.
“Odessa was attacked from the air,” Anton Herashchenko, adviser to the interior minister, writes on his Telegram account. “Fires were reported in some areas. Some of the missiles were shot down by air defense.”
One British journalist said it appeared that fuel storage units were hit in the strikes.
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