The runway at Odessa airport was destroyed by a Russian missile attack. The announcement was made by the Ukrainian army on Saturday. The impact of a Russian cruise missile made the runway unusable, he said.
Odessa is the last major Black Sea city still controlled by Ukraine. It is close to the breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria, where Russian soldiers are stationed.
The army had already reported new Russian attacks focusing on eastern Ukraine. “The struggle continues” but there are no successes for Russia, they say. In the vicinity of the city of Izyum, in the Kharkiv region, Russia continues to gather troops for the attack. The city of Kharkov itself was also attacked overnight. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke of his army’s “tactical successes” in the region.