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Russian missile strikes on Odesa kill 20 people, including children, after housing blocks are attacked all night

(CNN)At least 20 people, including children, died when Russia launched an overnight missile attack.At a housing and recreation center near Odesa in southern Ukraine, officials said Friday.

According to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, the attack struck a residential area, killing 16 people.

When the missile hit the community center, another four people, including a child, died and a third missile landed on the field. Respondents said at least 38 people were injured.

"I don't expect to find a living person, but I have a chance," the first Deputy Minister of the Interior, Yevhenii Yenin, said on Friday from the scene of the attack.

Images from the scene showed that the residential building was torn and debris was scattered on the ground.

In the Odesa region, adjacent to the strategically important Black Sea, combat has intensified over the course of several weeks.

However, some Ukrainian officials say that the restoration ofthe Black Sea's Ukrainian outpost, Snake Island, could mean less bombardment on Odesa. I am cautiously optimistic.

"I understand why the enemy occupied (Snake) Island. They filled the territory with destructive means and fired from them," state border spokesman Andrie Demchenko said at a briefing on Friday. Said in. "We hope that the bombardment of Ukraine's territory will be reduced."

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied that Russia was targeting Ukrainian civilian territories on Friday, ammunition. He repeated frequent claims to concentrate airstrikes on buildings, including those of Ukraine and training units. However, as with previous such claims after the Russian attack, he was unable to provide evidence that this was the case.

Russia has made slow but significant profits in the eastern part of Ukraine since refocusing on the invasion of Ukraine. Russian-backed officials from the People's Republic of Luhansksaid on Friday that Russian troops had "completely hijacked" an oil refinery in the confused city of Lysychans'k in eastern Ukraine. Russian success.

According to Selhi Hay Day, the head of the military regime in the Luhansk region, Russia's barrage against Lysychans'k is unforgiving.

"People dream of silence for at least 30 minutes, but the occupiers don't stop firing from all available weapons," Hayday said Thursday.