Odessa airport in southern Ukraine was hit on Saturday by a Russian missile that destroyed the runway, causing no casualties, regional governor Maxim Marchenko said.
“Today the enemy struck from Crimea by a Bastion coastal defense missile system. The runway at Odessa airport was destroyed. Thank God there were no casualties,” the governor said in a video on his Telegram account.
Eight people were killed in Russian strikes a week ago on the historic city of Odessa of nearly a million inhabitants, so far relatively spared from the fighting.
The Russian army then claimed to have targeted with “high precision missiles” a large depot of weapons delivered to Ukrainian forces by the United States and European countries, near Odessa.