A new Russian cruise missile attack on the Ukrainian port of Odessa on the Black Sea leaves people dead and injured. A Kalibr projectile hit a storage building and caused a fire there, the Ukrainian Army Group South’s high command said on Wednesday. Three camp workers were killed and seven were injured.
There may still be people under the rubble of the camp. Odessa, which has been shelled again by a Russian Black Sea warship, has been repeatedly targeted by Russian attacks. Also on Saturday, a fire killed and more than two dozen were injured.
Four Kalibr missiles shot down
According to the high command in Odessa, a total of four Kalibr cruise missiles were shot down. As a result of a dogfight and a blast wave, a business center, an educational building, a residential complex, a snack bar and shops in the city center were damaged. According to initial findings, six people were injured.
“Must Be Impossible”
Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had called for stronger air defenses for Ukraine and tougher sanctions against Russia following the deadly Russian missile attack on his hometown of Kryvyi Rih. “Together with our partners, we must create such conditions that Russian terrorism becomes impossible,” he said in his daily video address on Tuesday evening.
First, the purchase of even more air defense systems and fighter jets would be necessary, and second, sanctions against Russia would have to be enforced more consistently. “If we take, for example, one of the missiles that hit Kryvyi Rih today, about 50 components in it — mostly microelectronics — were made in other countries,” Zelenskyy said. Some are even produced in Ukraine’s partner countries, yet Russia manages to get hold of the components. The companies that cooperate with Moscow are well known.
Selenskyj warns the West
“If someone is acting as a go-between or collaborating with Russia to allow terrorists to blow up houses and kill people, then such actors — corporations or the state — deserve an appropriate response from the world,” Zelensky said. In any case, it would be cheaper to enforce the sanctions than to constantly supply new missile defense systems, he warned the West.
Source: Krone
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