(Reuters) -A Russian attack on Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa on Thursday struck a residential building, knocked out a heating supply boiler plant and damaged a pipeline, officials said.
“Yet another terrorist act in Odesa. A strike on a residential building,” Regional Governor Oleh Kiper said on the Telegram messaging app.
Unofficial Telegram-based news outlets posted a video of a building in flames, with firefighting equipment stationed nearby.
“The enemy attack has damaged the main pipeline for heating supplies,” Odesa mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov said on Telegram. “One of the city’s boiler plants has been forced to shut down.”
Officials and the military had warned of drones approaching Odesa before the attack. Trukhanov said the attack was still under way more than 30 minutes after an air raid alert was issued.
(Reporting by Ron Popeski; editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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