17 have been killed and at least 30 people injured after the rocket attack on Friday near the port city of Bilgorod-Dnistrovskyi, according to a statement from Ukrainian emergency services. A total of seven people have been rescued alive, among them three children, it is further stated. A child is also among the dead. The rocket attack was carried out from a plane over the Black Sea, according to Sergei Bratsjuk, spokesman for the military administration in the Odesa region. One rocket hit a nine-story apartment building while the other hit a leisure center. Photo: STATE EMERGENCY SERVICES OF UKRA / Reuters Two rockets According to the Ukrainian army’s southern command center, two rockets were used in the attack. One rocket hit a nine-story apartment building. Parts of the block were partially destroyed. The second rocket hit a leisure center, according to the statement. The Odesa region in southwestern Ukraine is strategically important. The region houses the historic port city of the same name. The rocket attack took place after Russian forces on Thursday left their positions on Slangeøya, which is outside the Odesa region’s kiss. The Russians took the small piece of land already on the first day of the war. The withdrawal was a major symbolic loss for Russia, according to Associate Professor Lars Peder Haga at the Air War School. The apartment block was completely damaged in the deadly attack. Photo: STATE EMERGENCY SERVICES OF UKRA / Reuters Fatal week On Monday this week, Russian rockets hit a shopping center in Krementsjuk, where at least 18 people died and 59 were injured. Russia’s president, for his part, denied that Russian forces were behind the attack.
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