A building of the Odessa Law Academy is on fire after a Russian missile attack in Odessa,Ukraine.Credit:AP
Reuters footage showed the roof of the ornate building,a private law academy,all but destroyed after the strike. Firefighters were directing water on small fires still burning.
“Monsters. Beasts. Savages. Scum. I don’t know what else to say,” Odesa Mayor Hennadii Trukhanov said in a video posted on Telegram. “People are going for a walk by the sea and they are shooting and killing.”
Pictures posted earlier online showed the building ablaze and smoke billowing skyward.
Firefighters work on the site of a damaged building after a Russian drone attack in Odesa,Ukraine.Credit:Odesa Regional Military Administration
Video footage,which could not be immediately verified,showed people receiving treatment on the street alongside pools of blood. One photo showed officials examining part of a missile.
A student at the academy who identified herself by her first name,Maria,said the blaze was caused when the missile was intercepted.