War in Ukraine: Odessa and Melitopol under attack

The Ukrainian Army said it knocked down 10 fears Saturday, but five others had hit energy facilities, leaving about 1.5 million people without power.

Later, Ukrainian mayor of Melitopol said an attack had been carried out in Russia's controlled city.

Images scattered by an official from Russia there indicate a great fire.

Russia's fearful attack on the Ukrainian port city of Odes indicated that Moscow fired fears produced by Iran in the main infrastructure, Ukrainian officials said.

“Situata in the Odessa region is very difficult”, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his night speech via video. “Unfortunately, the shocks were critical, so it takes more than time to restore electricity. It doesn't take hours, but several days”, reports the BBC.

Since October, Moscow has targeted Ukraine's energy infrastructure with large waves of missile attacks and fears.

In Melitopol, pro-Moscow authorities said a missile attack had killed two people and injured 10, while Ivan Fedorov, the mayor in exile, said many “invaders” were killed.

“Air Defense Systems destroyed two rockets, four achieved their targets”, said Yevgeny Balitsky, Moscow's designated governor of the occupied part of the Zaporizhja region, in the Telegram message app.

He added that a “recreation center” where people were having dinner was destroyed in the Ukrainian attack with rockets “Himars”, broadcast Klankosova.tv.