site.btaOdesa Port Infrastructure Damaged in Missile Attack

The Odesa port infrastructure was damaged in a missile attack on Friday, Odesa Province Governor Oleh Kiper said.

One man was injured and hospitalized, Kiper wrote on Telegram.

Ukraine’s southern port city of Odesa and the Odesa Province were hit by missiles several times throughout the day.

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.