Air moves rocked Ukraine’s strategic Black Sea port Odessa early Sunday morning, in step with an indoors ministry official, after Kyiv had warned that Russia changed into seeking to consolidate its troops withinside the south.
“Odessa changed into attacked from the air,” Anton Herashchenko, adviser to the indoors minister, wrote on his Telegram account.
“Fires had been said in a few areas. Some of the missiles had been shot down through air defence.”
An AFP reporter heard explosions withinside the southwestern town at round 6:00 am (0300 GMT).
The blasts despatched up at the least 3 columns of black smoke with flames seen reputedly in an commercial area.
A soldier close to the web website online of one of the moves stated it changed into probable a rocket or a missile.
The assault comes as Russian forces seemed to be taking flight from the country’s north.
On Friday, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Russia changed into consolidating and preparing “effective moves” withinside the south, becoming a member of a refrain of Western tests that Moscow’s troops had been regrouping.
Odessa, a anciental town of round 1,000,000 people, is Ukraine’s biggest Black Sea port.
