Ten dead and almost 40 injured by a missile launched by Russia against Odessa: “It is an exemplary bombing”

At least ten people, including seven police officers and a health worker, died and 39 others were injured this Monday in Odessa in a missile attack of Russia against a residential area of ​​the city, according to the Ukrainian Police in a statement.

Among the injured are 14 police officers and four minors, according to the statement.

At first the municipal authorities had given a provisional balance of 8 dead.

The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has condemned this new attack by Russia against the city of Odessa on its social networks.

“Strike by Russian terrorists with a ballistic missile against Odessa, against a residential area,” Zelensky wrote on his Telegram channel.

According to the Ukrainian presidentthe missile has landed in a park and has caused damage to a residential building, a university and an administrative building.

Zelensky added that This is not an “accidental attack.” and has described the bombing as “exemplary.”

“After the calls and meetings with Putin, after all these words in the media about his supposed ‘renunciation’ of the attacks, Russia shows what it is really interested in: only the war,” Zelensky said, referring to the calls that the president-elect of the United States had in recent days with the Russian president, donald trumpand the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz.

Zelensky asked the leaders participating in the G-20 summit in Brazil to “listen” to the message that Putin’s attack sends.

The daylight attack on Odessa comes hours after Another Russian missile killed 11 people in the city of Sumi last nightin northeastern Ukraine.

During the early hours of Sunday, Russian forces destroyed Ukrainian electrical infrastructure with one of the most massive attacks of this war, in which 120 missiles and 90 drones were used.

Also this Sunday it was learned that US President Joe Biden had given kyiv the green light to use long-range US missiles to attack Russian soil.