At least 21 people were killed overnight from Thursday to Friday in Russian strikes on buildings in Serguiyvka, a small coastal village in the Odessa region, according to kyiv. Regional Governor Maksym Marchenko said: “21 people were killed, including a 12-year-old boy. 38 are in hospital, including five children. Two children are in serious condition.” “There was not the slightest military target” there, he said. “The enemy hit the village of Sergiyivka in the Belgorod Dnistrovsky district with three missiles. A large building was destroyed as well as a tourist complex” he further clarified.
According to the Ukrainian command of the southern front, it was Tupolev Tu-22, planes dating from the Cold War and designed to carry nuclear charges, which released Kh-22 missiles from the Black Sea against these civilian buildings.
“Deliberate Terror”
“I insist: this is deliberate Russian terror and not some mistake or accidental missile strike,” denounced President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday evening. “I call on our partners to provide Ukraine with missile defense systems as soon as possible. Help us save lives,” Foreign Minister Dmytro Kouleba wrote on Twitter, calling Russia a “terrorist state”.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, questioned on the subject, assured that the Russian forces were not operating “not on civilian targets” in Ukraine.
According to the Ukrainian army, the missiles used near Odessa are of the same type as those which hit a shopping center in broad daylight on Monday in Kremenchuk, in central Ukraine 200 km from the front, killing at least 19 dead according to the latest reports.