On Tuesday, March 21, occupying Russian forces attacked the Odessa region. “On March 21 at around 19:40, two guided missiles were launched into the sk

On Tuesday, March 21, occupying Russian forces attacked the Odessa region. Air defense shot down two enemy Kh-59 missiles.

"On March 21 at around 19:40, two Kh-59 X-59 air-to-surface guided missiles were shot down in the sky over the Odessa region by the forces and means of air defense of the Jug air command," said the Air Force in a statement.

The South Task Force indicated that the enemy fired 3 X-59 air-to-surface-to-air-to-surface guided missiles from Su-35 fighters from the direction of the Black Sea. Two of them were shot down, but the third hit the three-story building of the monastery of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. “Four people were injured in the rocket attack. Three of them were slightly injured by the blast. One person was hospitalized," the commander's office said.

At the same time, Andriy Yermak, head of the President's Office, said that the occupiers fired four rockets at Odessa, two of which hit the city.