A Russian strike on a civilian enterprise in the Odesa region killed six people and injured six others, as casualty figures continued to rise throughout Monday.
Oleh Kiper, head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration, at 3:54 p.m. reported the strike, which, initially, killed three people and injured four. Just an hour later, Kiper said the number of injured had climbed to six, and three additional people had died, bringing the total dead to six.
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Two of the injured were hospitalized, with one in serious condition and the other in moderate condition.
Fire and gas pipeline damage
The strike damaged a gas pipeline at the site, causing equipment to catch fire. According to initial reports, specialized services were promptly deployed to respond to the attack.
As of the latest update at 4:27 p.m., emergency workers were still at the site.
Air raid alert following the strike
An air alert was issued for the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi and Izmail districts of the Odesa region, warning residents to stay vigilant.
The attack adds to a pattern of ongoing Russian strikes on civilian and industrial targets across the Odesa region. Earlier on Monday, a Russian missile struck the Turkish-owned cargo ship Golden Leo as it departed Odesa with grain, killing 10 people in an attack Ukrainian officials said deliberately targeted civilian shipping.
Russian forces launched a series of strikes on Odesa and the region’s port infrastructure on July 18 as well, damaging civilian facilities and hitting a foreign commercial vessel. The attack followed a Russian strike on two merchant ships in the Black Sea on July 14, which killed the captain of a Tanzania-flagged vessel and injured three crew members, while a separate drone strike the same evening killed two more people aboard a Marshall Islands-flagged ship.
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