Russian missile strike hits Ukraine’s Odesa area for first time in weeks

Odesa regional Governor Maksym Marchenko stated that infrastructure was hit and warned about the specter of a ‘large missile barrage on your entire territory of Ukraine’.

Odesa,UPDATED: Nov 17, 2022 13:58 IST

A Ukrainian sapper inspects a destroyed constructing in the course of the demining of a residential space in Novoselivka, Donetsk area, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022 (Photo: AP)

By India Today Web Desk: A Russian missile strike hit Ukraine’s southern Odesa area for the primary time in weeks on Thursday, information company AP quoted the regional governor Maksym Marchenko as saying. Marchenko stated that infrastructure was hit and warned about the specter of a ‘large missile barrage on your entire territory of Ukraine’.

Russia launched its greatest wave of missile assaults on Ukrainian cities after over a month on Tuesday. The strikes focused energy infrastructure in a number of areas of the nation, leaving greater than seven million Ukrainians with out energy and the provision of electrical energy.

The report said that a number of explosions had been additionally reported in Dnipro. One particular person sustained accidents and two infrastructure objects had been broken within the assault, deputy head of Ukraine’s presidential workplace, Kyrylo Tymoshenko instructed AP.

Meanwhile, officers in Poltava, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi and Rivne areas have appealed to the residents to remain in bomb shelters as missile strikes proceed to persist.

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As a number of explosions hit Ukraine, residents had been urged to remain in bomb shelters as the specter of missile strikes persists. A missile struck Poland on Tuesday, killing two residents. The missile blast occurred on a farm in Przewodow, simply 6km (4 miles) from Poland’s border with Ukraine.

According to US officers, preliminary findings have prompt the missile that hit Poland was fired by Ukrainian forces at an incoming Russian missile. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has stated he had ‘no doubts’ that Ukraine was to not blame for the missile strike that claimed two lives in Poland, reported BBC. However, US President Joe Biden has additionally solid a doubt on Zelensky’s assertion that the missile was not of Ukrainian origin.

The incident in Poland, a NATO nation, prompted ambassadors from the US-led navy alliance to carry an emergency assembly in Brussels Wednesday.

(With company inputs)

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Nov 17, 2022