An evening rocket attack on Odessa on April 29 killed four people and injured about 30, including two children and a pregnant woman.

As a Dumskaya correspondent reports, the interception by an anti-aircraft missile occurred over the coastal slopes. Fragments of the rocket scattered over a radius of several hundred meters, the roof of the Palace of Students of the Academy of Sciences, known as the “Harry Potter Castle,” caught fire, glass was broken in many private houses and the roof was damaged.

Odessa resident Igor said that the explosion occurred right above him, while he was working on his site. The middle-aged man was talking loudly, apparently he was a little deafened by the explosion.

“I was digging in my garden plot and at that moment there was a roar, I covered my head with my hands in surprise, it was very loud… The rocket fragments fell 20 meters from the house. Everything turned out okay, but the feeling was not pleasant,” he notes.

Several windows in Valery’s house were broken, but, fortunately, all the glass was intact.

“Everything is fine, everyone is alive, but fragments flew into the house and into the car – the windshield and a hole in the door were broken,” says the Odessa resident.

The roof of Harry Potter’s Castle burned for several hours, making it difficult for fire engines to reach the site.

The head of the center for strategic communications of the Southern Defense Forces, captain 3rd rank Dmitry Pletenchuk, noted that the nature of the damage on the walls of the houses suggests that the ammunition was intended to destroy people.

“Shrapnel holes are visible on the walls of the damaged facility, that is, the ammunition was intended for combat operations and the destruction of manpower, but it is used to kill civilians,” Dmitry Pletenchuk emphasized.

Author Sergey Smolentsev, photo by the author

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