Kiev and Odessa hit by Russian air strikes for the second night in a row

The attack was a very powerful “, indeed massive”, said Serhiy Bratchuk, spokesman for the Odessa military administration, through a message on his channel in the telegram on Wednesday.

“It was a night like in hell”, he said, adding that the details of the damage and victims would come later.

After the explosion on a bridge linking Russia to the Crime Peninsula, which Moscow blamed Ukraine, Russia pledged revenge and launched attacks in Odessa.

Odessa is the most important port for Ukraine's wheat exports.

Shortly after the bridge incident, Moscow withdrew from the Black Sea grain deal that had facilitated Ukraine's safe export of wheat for a year. The United Nations expressed concern that this action risks hunger worldwide.

“ (They) are trying to scare the whole world, especially those who want to work for the wheat corridor ... Ukraine, Turkey and the United Nations”, Bratchuk said.

Most of Ukraine was subjected to alarms for air strikes, starting immediately after midnight Wednesday, with Russia hitting other cities, including a fearful attack on Kiev.

The “was a difficult night from air strikes for all of Ukraine, especially in the south, at Odessa”, said Serhiy Popko, head of Kiev City military administration, in the Telegram.

He said Kiev was attacked, and according to preliminary information, there is damage and there may be victims.

Russia has not commented on the attacks, but pro-Kremlin military bloggers said Moscow has used a combination of missiles and fears to attack Odessa and other regions.

The RBC-Ukraine news agency reported that an attack also occurred on the Crime Peninsula, with explosions heard on military training grounds in the Kirovske district.

The fire that erupted from the attack near a military training base in the Kirovske district of the Crime Peninsula has forced the evacuation of over 2,000 people and the closure of the nearby highway, said on Wednesday, the Crimean Governor, who is backed by Russia, Sergei Aksyonov.

“is scheduled to temporarily evacuate residents of four settlements, more than 2,000 people”, Aksyonov said in the Telegram message application.

He gave no information about why the fire was caused, which also forced partial closure of the Tardy main highway.

Russia's Telegram channels linked to Russian security services and Ukrainian media reported that an ammunition depot was being burned after a Ukrainian air attack overnight.

Moscow illegally annexed Crime from Ukraine in 2014. / REL