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Russian airstrikes on Odesa result in one fatality, four injuries, and cathedral damage

Russian missiles poured down on southern Ukraine overnight, resulting in at least one death and 22 injuries.

Oleh Kiper, the regional governor, reported that 14 persons, including three children, were hospitalised as a result of the explosions in the Black Sea city of Odesa.

Since the Kremlin cancelled the UN-backed grain accord, Vladimir Putin‘s soldiers have continued to target the major grain export hub.

One missile hit the historic Transfiguration Cathedral, which was built in the 18th century, destroyed under Stalin and then rebuilt in the early 2000s.

This photograph taken on July 23, 2023, shows the destructed Transfiguration Cathedral as a result of a missile strike in Odesa, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine on Sunday said the death toll from overnight strikes by Russia on the port of Odesa rose to two, with 22 people wounded, including four children. (Photo by Oleksandr GIMANOV / AFP) (Photo by OLEKSANDR GIMANOV/AFP via Getty Images)
Despite the damage, the building is still standing (Picture: AFP)
A boy helps salvage items at the Odesa Transfiguration Cathedral after it was heavily damaged in Russian missile attacks in Odesa, Ukraine, Sunday, July 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
A boy helps salvage items at the Transfiguration Cathedral (Picture: AP)

Footage shared on Telegram shows the interior of the building partially destroyed, and a number of Orthodox shrines damaged.

The floors can be seen covered in rubble and chunks ripped off the ornate walls.

‘The destruction is enormous, half of the cathedral is now roofless,’ Archdeacon Andrii Palchuk said.

‘All the windows and stucco moulding were blown out. There was a fragmentary fire, the part where icons and candles are sold in the church caught fire. It was all on fire, burning.’

He said the damage was caused by a direct hit from a missile that penetrated the building down to the basement and caused significant damage.

Two people who were inside at the time of the strike were wounded.

It is Odesa’s largest church and it is located in the city centre, which is a UNESCO world heritage site.

‘The Kasperovska icon of the Mother of God, who is the patroness of Odesa, was retrieved from under the rubble,’ the administration said on its Telegram channel.

Ukrainian rescuers work at the site of a missile strike in Odesa, on July 23, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. At least one person was killed and more than 15 wounded in a Russian attack on the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa, the governor of the region said. (Photo by Oleksandr GIMANOV / AFP) (Photo by OLEKSANDR GIMANOV/AFP via Getty Images)
Rescuers search for people trapped under rubble (Picture: AFP)
Emergency workers walk through the rubble of apartment buildings in Odesa, Ukraine, Sunday, July 23, 2023, following Russian missile attacks. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Emergency workers walk through the rubble of apartment buildings in Odesa (Picture: AP)

Six residential buildings, including apartment buildings, were also destroyed in the attack.

In central Odesa, some people became trapped in their apartments as a result of the damage.

Rubble can be seen strewn in the street and partly blocking the road, and damage to power lines.

Svitlana Molcharova was rescued by emergency workers, but after receiving first aid, she refused to leave her destroyed apartment.

‘I will stay here,’ the 85-year-old told rescuers.

President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the attack and vowed that the enemy will ‘feel the retaliation’.

Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s security council, said in a statement on Facebook: ‘The main purpose of Russia’s missile attacks on Odesa and the region is an attempt to cut off Ukraine’s access to the Black Sea, and to use intimidation to prevent and neutralise international efforts to restore the functioning of the grain corridor.’

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