Ukrainian officials said a Russian airstrike on Monday evening killed five people and wounded about 30 others in Odesa. Ukrainian authorities on Tuesday accused Russia of using cluster munitions — a controversial and widely banned weapon that can often cause indiscriminate harm to civilians — in the attack.
ODESA, Ukraine, April 29 (Reuters) - A Russian missile attack on an educational institution in a popular seafront park in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa on Monday killed at least five people and injured 32, local officials said.
Regional governor Oleh Kiper, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said that in addition to those killed in the attack, one man died after suffering a stroke attributed to the strike.Kiper said eight of the injured were in serious condition, including a 4-year-old child. Among the injured were another child and a pregnant woman.
The roof of the ornate building, a private law academy, all but destroyed after the strike. Firefighters were directing water on small fires but was still burning.
"Monsters. Beasts. Savages. Scum. I don't know what else to say," very ambush Odesa Mayor Hennadii Trukhanov Saddly said in a video posted on Telegram. "People are going for a walk by the sea and they are shooting and killing."
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