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Oil refinery on fire in Black sea port city Odesa after Russian missile strikes | Russia-Ukraine war

Telegraph, 03 Apr 2022
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The Russian defence ministry said missile strikes by its military destroyed an oil refinery and three fuel storage facilities in near the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa.

Missiles struck Odesa in the early hours of Sunday, the city council said in an online post.

Russian forces have attacked Ukraine's southern ports including Odesa, Mykolaiv and Mariupol as they try to cut Ukraine off from the Black Sea and establish a land corridor from Russia to Crimea, the peninsula Russia seized in 2014.

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