site.btaSeven Killed, 15 Injured in Missile Attack on Port Infrastructure in Odesa Region

Seven people were killed and 15 others wounded in a missile strike on port infrastructure in Ukraine’s Odesa region on Friday evening, according to Oleh Kiper, Head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration.

"This evening, the Russians once again carried out a massive missile attack on port infrastructure in the Odesa region,” Kiper said in a post on Telegram. "As a result of the strike, trucks parked at the site caught fire."

Kiper added that emergency and operational response efforts were being hampered by an ongoing air raid alert.

Odesa Region is home to the third largest community of expatriate Bulgarians, numbering more than 150,000 people, according to an official population census in Ukraine in 2001. Between 50,000 and 60,000 Bulgarians live in the regional capital, Odesa. Bulgarians in the region are concentrated in the districts of Bolhrad, Izmail and Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi.