Odesa: Smoke and fire is seen after shelling in Odesa, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022. (AP/PTI Photo)
Lviv, April 3 (AP): The Russian military on Sunday said it had struck an oil processing plant and fuel depots around the strategic Black Sea port of Odesa.
Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Maj.-Gen. Igor Konashenkov said Russian ships and aircraft on Sunday fired missiles to strike the facilities used to provide fuel to Ukrainian troops near Mykolaiv.
Konashenkov also said Russian strikes destroyed ammunition depots in Kostiantynivka and Khresyshche.
In an audio message posted by Italian news agency ANSA, Italian photographer Carlo Orlandi said Odessa woke to military sirens at 5:45 a.m. on Sunday, followed immediately by the sounds of bombs falling on the port city from two aircraft.
He described a column of dark smoke rising from the targets, and flames from the buildings.
What we can see is a dense screen of dark smoke, and one explosion after the other," Orlandi said.
