site.btaOdesa Under Ballistic Missile Attack

The Ukrainian coastal city of Odesa and the Odesa Province were attacked with ballistic missiles from Crimea. Loud explosions were heard. An air raid alert went on at 7:17 p.m. on Sunday, local Telegram channels report.

Oleg Kipper, head of the Odesa regional military administration, urged all residents of Odesa and the Odesa Province to remain sheltered.

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.