Shelling in Odesa: casualties reported
Anastasiia Kalatur, Iryna Balachuk - Tuesday, 10 May 2022, 09:14
One person have died and 5 people have been injured as a result of Russian shelling in Odessa.
Source: "Pivden" (South) Operational Command, State Emergency Service on Telegram
Details: The injured have been taken to hospital.
A total of seven rockets were reportedly fired into the city. It is noted that "clearly vintage, Soviet-type ones were used, which, due to their age, are already failing in their aim."
On the morning of 10 May, the State Emergency Service said that one of the rockets hit a shopping and entertainment centre in the village of Fontanka in the Odesa district at 22:35 on 9 May.
The missile impact caused destruction followed by fire. By 01:20, fires had been extinguished over an area of 1,000 square metres. Three people were injured.
As a result of another missile attack on the evening of 9 May, three warehouses of finished products in the Suvorovsky district of Odesa caught fire. By 01:30 the fire, which blazed over a total area of 1,200 square metres, was extinguished. One person was killed and 2 injured as a result of the fire.
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Background: on 9 May, the Russians launched yet another missile attack on Odesa, causing a fire in a shopping and entertainment centre.
