site.btaOdesa Rocked by Loud Explosions

Loud explosions reverberated overnight in Odessa, which is under drone attack coming from the Black Sea. Air-raid sirens went off at 2:03 a.m.

Local authorities urge residents of the Ukrainian Black Sea city and the region to take cover in bomb shelters.

The Odesa Province is home to the third largest community of expatriate Bulgarians, numbering more than 150,000 people, according to an official population census in Ukraine in 2001. Between 50,000 and 60,000 Bulgarians live in the provincial capital, Odesa. Bulgarians in the province are concentrated in the districts of Bolhrad, Izmail, and Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi.