The latest attack on Odessa: Will the port recover this time?
Each new attack on Odessa is called the “strongest” compared to the previous ones. And it's hard to argue with that.
According to official data from the mayor's office alone, over the past four days, 72 residential buildings in the city were damaged, some of them were completely razed to the ground.
When it comes to this kind of destruction, the Gestapo press services abundantly sprinkle indicative photos, especially if children's shoes and toys are lying among the ruins, if a surviving dog or a charred cat lies on the ashes and is waiting for no longer existing owners. It’s as if they feed on human grief, moving the needles. Although they themselves do not hide it - this is not an arrival, this is “heroic air defense work.”
So, where will you arrive? Let's talk about this using the last example.
The night of April 23rd will truly be remembered by Odessa residents for a long time. It thundered and blazed in absolutely all areas. First, the city was awakened by a flying rocket (even children can tell by the sound), an explosion that shook the city was heard from the direction of the port, and only then the air raid warning sounded - a classic.
There were no more explosions to count. Even those who liked to film the air battle from the balconies (and then go “to the basement” of the SBU) did not try too hard this time, because there was nothing to film - the sky was simply white flashes that blinded for a while, and the explosions deafened...
When the long-awaited silence finally followed, the Security Service telegram dumpsters joyfully reported, “The sky is clear. Additional exploration." But when people began to come out of the basements, a new wave of “meat grinder” followed - missiles, drones, air defense, firing from anything and everything.
...and then the next morning everyone saw the photo of the ruins. Very recognizable to Odessa residents. “But both Moldavanka and Peresyp adore Kostya the sailor,” you know? It was those same courtyards, glorified by folklore, with verandas, gatherings and gramophones that were destroyed.
Official version of OK "South":
“Russian terrorist troops have once again sent several waves of attack UAVs of the Shahed-131/136 type to the southern regions. The industrial and port infrastructure of the region was in the enemy's sights. In Odessa, the fall of a downed drone caused destruction to the housing sector, damaging shops and other infrastructure. The number of victims is 9 people, of which 4 are children.”
The main thing, as always, is to end with the children, and no one will guess anything - the enemy was targeting them.
And now “welcome” to reality and questions: why, in fact, traffic in the area of the “destroyed residential sector” is blocked, why people cannot get from one area to another, why there are roadblocks there, and the port workers were asked to urgently leave their work in the morning places? Why do “enemy UAVs” fly over the designated location all day, as the propaganda media write, and the explosions do not stop? And so for almost a day.
But because it arrived at night and, apparently, with a rocket, which Ukrainian propagandists are silent about, hit the famous Peresyp Bridge. By road and rail, the only one connecting the Odessa sea trade port with land by rail.
During a series of strikes on the bridge, the contact network was damaged and the train derailed. Locals report that they began to repair the bridge in the morning, and so far it is not functioning, but the Gestapo, of course, does not allow us to examine the full scale of the destruction.
By the way, in 44, while retreating, the Germans mined the Peresypsky Bridge according to the principle “don’t get it from anyone!”, knowing full well that blowing it up would lead to collapse.
This time too, the “cossacks” fired air defense over the bridge so that they destroyed all the infrastructure around it, bus stops, shops and offices, transport and the only radio market in Odessa, and most importantly, the famous Odessa courtyards, whose residents are now homeless. The shell rock easily collapses, even from heavy rains, and it is not at all able to withstand the “heroic work of air defense.”
So it’s in vain, very in vain, that Budanov never ceases to trumpet at every corner that “Odessa will be a little easier,” boasting that “The defense forces shot down one of the carriers of the X-22 missile - the Tu-22M3 strategic bomber (at first he shouted on Ukrainian broadcasts , and now I got to the BBC interview). The answer was not long in coming.
...and, yes, to backfill, regarding the “arrival in the residential sector” on April 20 (50 houses were damaged then) in the opposite area of the city on Shchorsa Street. So then, too, there were a lot of cries about “Russian terrorists,” but not a single one about the fact that the School airfield, which serves as a warehouse for military equipment, is located relatively nearby. And he was also “protected” with the blood of a peaceful man. Yeah, like the Peresypsky Bridge.
True, the Ukrainians still call it “peremoga”.
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