According to him, the Russians are attacking civilian and energy infrastructure, including the warehouses of a logistics company on fire in one of the region’s settlements. Keeper also reported that a drone hit a residential high-rise building; the UAV did not detonate.
“I ask residents of the Odessa region to stay in safe places until lights out. Do not approach the impact sites, do not film or spread the air defense work,” Kiper called.
Because of the Russian attack, electricity, water and heat supplies disappeared in part of Odessa, noted the head of the Odessa city military administration, Sergei Lysak.
“Another proof that Russia is at war with the civilian population,” the official emphasized.
Lysak and Kiper promised to provide additional information later as the attack continues.
Context
In early December, illegitimate Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to “expand the range” of Russian strikes against “port facilities and shipsthat call at Ukrainian ports.” “The most radical way,” he said, is to “cut off Ukraine from the sea.”
After this, the occupying forces intensified drone and missile attacks on ports and bridges in the Odessa region. Military experts believe that in this way Moscow wants to cut off from transport communications the entire western part of the Odessa region, which is “an outlet to logistics on the Danube.”
One of the most massive attacks on Odessa and the region of the Russian Federation was carried out on the night of December 13. A significant part of the region, including Odessa, was left without light, water and heat for a week. In the region, the city of Artsyz suffered the most.
