Odessa, Mariupol were bombarded by air strikes during the fighting in Ukraine

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 Ukrainian officials said the cities of Odessa and Mariupol were hit by rocket attacks that killed and injured many people.


According to the announcement by Governor Maksym Marchenko on the Telgram messaging application on May 2, a missile attack occurred in the port city of Odessa on the Black Sea coast in southwestern Ukraine, leaving many people dead and injured. .


"The enemy launched missiles at the infrastructure in Odessa. Unfortunately, people were killed and injured," Marchenko announced.


Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that two teenagers aged 14 and 17 were injured in a missile attack in Odessa on May 2. Odessa City Council also confirmed this information.


"Due to a missile strike in Odessa, a building, which had five people inside at the time of the strike, was destroyed," the city council said in a statement.


Media quoted Secretary of the Security Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danylov as saying that the attack also hit a church, knocking off the roof in Odessa. In addition, the air raids also hit a strategically important bridge over the mouth of the Dniester.


President Zelensky on April 30 accused Russia of launching a missile to destroy a newly built airstrip at the main airport of the city of Odessa, which has a strategic seaport on the Black Sea. The mayor of Odessa, Gennadiy Trukhanov, said the runway took 10 years to design and build and will be officially put into use from July 2021.


Odessa is one of the strategic port cities located on the Black Sea coast, southern Ukraine and is considered an important target for Russia when it opens a military campaign in Ukraine.


Odessa has repeatedly come under attack during fierce skirmishes between Russian and Ukrainian forces in recent weeks. Russia is still concentrating forces to deploy military operations in the south and east of Ukraine.


Late last month, five people were killed, including a three-month-old baby girl, in an air strike on the city of Odessa.


Fighting also broke out in the strategic port city of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine on May 2.


A Ukrainian deputy commander said that the Azovstal metallurgical plant in Mariupol has been under "continuous fire" since the early morning of May 2, when authorities were still racing to evacuate more civilians from the plant. . About 100 civilians were evacuated from the factory on May 1, but the evacuation plan on May 2 was not carried out.


According to the announcement of the Mariupol city council, the evacuation corridor for civilians from the Azovstal plant will be established on May 3. The Ukrainian side said that five Russian soldiers were killed in the fighting late on May 2, but this information has not been confirmed by Moscow.


Currently, thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians are entrenched inside the Azovstal factory - Ukraine's last stronghold in Mariupol - before the siege and attack of the Russian army. Ukraine's military on April 30 accused Russian planes of continuing to strike Mariupol, focusing on the Azovstal region.


Serhiy Volyna, commander of Ukraine's 36th Marine Brigade, which is fighting at the Azvostal iron and steel plant constantly "calls for help", said hundreds of wounded people are sheltering inside the Azovstal plant but without medical care and without medication.


The Azovstal plant can be considered as the final barrier that prevents Russia from fully controlling the strategic port city of Mariupol. However, Ukrainian forces here still declared not to surrender.

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