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Five killed in Russian missile attack as Ukraine’s ‘Harry Potter | |
castle’ goes up in flames | |
By Radina Gigova and Olga Voitovych, CNN | |
Updated: | |
10:58 PM EDT, Tue April 30, 2024 | |
Source: CNN | |
At least five people were killed and more than 30 injured in a Russian | |
missile attack on the Black Sea port city of Odesa on Monday, Ukrainian | |
authorities say. | |
Dramatic video footage of the attack, released by the office of | |
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General, showed dozens of bomblets exploding | |
within seconds of each other in an area close to the seafront. | |
Other videos and pictures shared by officials showed flames engulfing | |
the cone-shaped towers and roof of an educational institution known | |
locally as “Harry Potter castle” due to its resemblance to a | |
Scottish baronial pile. | |
Ukrainian authorities believe used an Iskander ballistic missile and | |
cluster munitions to carry out the attack. | |
“Metal fragments and missile debris were recovered within a 1.5 km | |
(nearly 1 mile) radius from the attack site,” Ukraine’s Prosecutor | |
General Andriy Kostin said. He added that “the investigation has | |
grounds to believe” the Russian military used cluster munitions with | |
the intention of inflicting large number of casualties. | |
He said two children and a pregnant woman were among the 30 people | |
injured in the attack. | |
Nearly 20 residential buildings and infrastructure facilities were also | |
damaged from the strike. | |
The use, transfer, and production of cluster munitions is prohibited by | |
an international treaty known as the Convention on Cluster Munitions. | |
However, neither side – nor the United States – has signed the | |
convention. | |
Cluster munitions have been used by both sides in the war and have been | |
transferred to by the United States as part of a military aid package | |
last year. | |
Russia claims intercept | |
Meanwhile, Russian officials say air defenses in Crimea succeeded in | |
intercepting a major missile and drone attack by Ukraine. | |
Kremlin-appointed Sergey Aksyonov, the top civilian official in | |
occupied Crimea, warned people not to approach possible unexploded | |
ordinance, while one of his officials urged people not to film or post | |
videos of Russian air defenses in action. | |
Russian military bloggers said the targets were airfields. | |
The bridge linking Crimea to Russia, a vital artery for supplying | |
Russia’s ongoing war efforts, was temporarily closed for traffic, but | |
has since reopened. | |
Russian officials said the attack was primarily carried out using six | |
US-supplied Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS), which it said had | |
all been successfully shot down by air defenses. | |
Ukraine has not commented, and CNN is unable to verify Russia’s | |
claims. Unusually, almost no videos or images of the explosions have | |
emerged. | |
This is a developing story and will be updated. | |
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