Odesa mayor: Russians call destroyed house a ‘military facility’

Russian invaders call a multi-storey apartment house in Odesa city, in which eight civilians were killed in a missile strike, a military facility.

"I have behind me what the occupiers call a 'military facility', what they struck with their ‘high-precision weapon’,” Odesa Mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov said in a video commentary, Ukrinform reports.

He confirmed that eight people were killed in the strike, including a three-month-old girl.

"An Odesa resident who has never seen life. You, beasts, will burn in hell," the mayor summed up emotionally.

According to Russian media reports, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that the purpose of the missile strike on Odesa on April 23 was "a logistics terminal at a military airfield... where a large batch of foreign weapons from the United States and European countries was stored."

Today, at about 14:35, a Russian missile fired from the Caspian Sea hit a 16-storey residential building in Odesa. Eight people, including a three-month-old child, were killed and 18 more were injured. About 1,000 sq m of a city cemetery were destroyed as a result of the missile strike.

Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine

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