Russian strikes hits Ukraine's Odesa region

Russian strikes hit Ukraine’s southern Odesa region and the city of Dnipro for the first time; air raid sirens sounded all across the country.

KYIV (Ukraine):

Russian strikes hit Ukraine's southern Odesa region and the city of Dnipro for the first time in weeks on Thursday, November 17, 2022 and air raid sirens sounded all across the country amid fears that Moscow unleashed another large-scale missile attack.

An infrastructure target was hit on the Odesa region, Gov. Maksym Marchenko said on Telegram, warning about the threat of a “massive missile barrage on the entire territory of Ukraine.”

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Multiple explosions were also reported in Dnipro, where two infrastructure objects were damaged and at least one person was wounded, according to the deputy head of Ukraine’s presidential office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko.

Air defense systems were operating in the central Kyiv region, Gov. Oleksiy Kuleba said. Officials in the Poltava, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi and Rivne regions urged residents to stay in bomb shelters amid the persisting threat of missile strikes.

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