Official news: the Russians hit the plant in the Odesa region on Friday

DENYS KARLOVSKYI - SATURDAY, 21 MAY 2022, 15:11

DESTRUCTION OF THE PLANT BY RUSSIAN MISSILE STRIKE. PHOTO: OPERATIONAL COMMAND "PIVDEN" [SOUTH]

Russian strategic bombers fired a missile at a fertilizer plant in the Odesa region, which caused a fire.

Source: Operational Command "Pivden" [South]

Quote: "They hit a fertiliser plant. As a result of the hit, a funnel with a diameter of 12m and a depth of 3m was formed on the territory of the plant. It destroyed industrial facilities.

There was an explosion and a fire broke out, but Ukrainian State Emergency Service units quickly extinguished it."

Details: No one was wounded in the missile attack. 

According to the military command, there is no threat to the environment. Yesterday, 20 May, local residents reported the smell of ammonia after a Russian missile strike on the Odesa region.

Background: 

• In the afternoon of 20 May, Vitalii Kim, Head of the Mykolaiv Regional Administration, assured that there is no threat to the population or environment from missile strike by Russians on the plant in the Odesa region.
• Also on 20 May, strategic bombers destroyed a beach toilet in the Odesa region using expensive missiles.
• The Ministry of Defence of Ukraine warned that the Russians have prepared 16 3M-54 Kalibr cruise missiles to launch from the waters of the Black Sea.