- Russian troops launched two missile strikes, hitting a highway and a railway bridge.
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| A woman says goodbye to her relatives in Odessa before leaving as a refugee. / EFE |
The Russian army, which has focused its attacks on the east and south of Ukraine, also launches sporadic missile launches in the west of the country, in the coastal city of Odesa, where it has once again damaged several infrastructures in the Dniester River estuary. , near the Black Sea.
Russian troops launched two missile strikes, hitting a road and a railway bridge in the estuary. Both infrastructures had already been damaged in previous attacks, according to local Ukrainian agencies.
"Desperately continuing to destroy the non-functioning bridge over the Dniester estuary, the Russians hit the previously broken track," Serhiy Bratchuk, a spokesman for the Odessa Military Administration, posted on his Telegram account.
Black seaport
"The blast wave damaged several nearby private houses. No casualties have been reported among the population. A missile was shot down by the air defense," said the military officer.
It added that "on the morning of May 30, an anti-aircraft missile unit of the (Ukrainian) Southern Air Command detected and destroyed a Kh-type cruise missile fired by a Russian strategic bomber from the Black Sea in the Odesa region."
Odesa is a strategic city located a few kilometers from the borders of Moldova and Romania, from which the Dniester River estuary separates them, and is also close to the Crimean peninsula, which the Russians occupied in 2014. The historic city is almost the only outlet to the Black Sea that Ukraine still maintains and has not been occupied by the Russians.