The airport of the Ukrainian city of Odessa was the target this Saturday of a Russian missile shot that destroyed its runway, without causing any casualties, announced the governor of the region, Maxim Marchenko.
“Today the enemy attacked from Crimea with a Bastion coastal defense missile system. The Odessa airport runway was destroyed. Thank God, there are no victims,” the governor said in a video posted on his Telegram account.
A week ago, eight people were killed in Russian bombardments of the port city of Odessa, closely of one million inhabitants, hitherto little affected by the war with Russia.
The Russian army said that the attack, with “high-precision missiles”, was directed against a major stockpile of weapons delivered to Ukraine by United States and countries of the European Union (EU).
On 10 April, the airport of Dnipro (east) was “totally destroyed” by Russian bombing, according to regional authorities.
Russia had already destroyed the largest refinery in Ukraine
In early April, the Russian Army had destroyed two refineries Ukrainian oil companies, that of Kremenchuk, in the center of Ukraine and the largest in the country, and that of Odessa, a strategic port city in the south that had so far not received major attacks.
Dmitro Lunin, head of the military administration of the central Poltava region, indicated that the infrastructure has been “destroyed” and that some people suffered burns, although their lives, he added, are not in danger. In his message, he indicated that due to the damage the plant does not work and reported that an airport fuel depot has also been damaged in Mirgorod.
According to the Ukrainian newspaper “Ukrainskaya Pravda”, the Kremenchuk refinery was the largest in Ukraine and had a capacity of 18.6 million tons of crude oil.