LIVE – War in Ukraine: Death toll rises to 12 in Russian attack on Odessa

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on the world to help defeat “Russian evil” on Sunday, as the death toll from a drone attack on the port city of Odessa rose to 12. A strike on a city apartment building in the early hours of Saturday left several floors partially destroyed. Mr. According to statements by Zelensky and the governor of the region, five children were killed in the attack, including two children under the age of one.

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius responded to the press after Berlin announced on Saturday that it would launch an investigation into the broadcast of a recording of a conversation between German officials on Russian social networks: “This is about undermining our unity. I believe that Putin will not achieve this by dividing our domestic politics, in any dispute that may arise on the Taurus issue. We are united.

This Sunday, demonstrations by Polish farmers blocked the border crossing with Ukraine. Local media reported that they were protesting grain imports from Ukraine. According to Ukrainian newspaper The Give Independent2,400 trucks will be waiting to cross the border.

Traffic on the Kerch Bridge connecting Crimea and Russia was cut off for several hours overnight from Saturday to Sunday. At LCI, senior reporter Guillaume Auda describes the bridge's strategic utility for the Russians. Supplies, equipment or ammunition are thus transported from the continent to the peninsula.

The death toll from an attack on a building in Odessa rose to 10, the region's governor said, after the bodies of a woman and an eight-month-old baby were found in the rubble on Sunday.

This Sunday morning, work to “destroy” the site of the building collapse is still underway, emergency services said.

After a Russian strike on a nine-story building in Odessa overnight, some hundreds of rescue workers continued their search for survivors from the rubble, Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said in a Telegram. According to the same source, about ten people went missing overnight.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday reiterated his call for his Western allies to provide more air defense systems after Russian attacks killed at least eleven people, including eight in Odessa.

One of its key partners, Germany, is facing an unexpected crisis after its defense ministry confirmed “interference” in exchanges between officials discussing classified war-related matters.

In Ukraine, a Russian strike on a nine-story building in the Black Sea port city of Odessa overnight from Friday to Saturday left eight dead, including two children aged three years and four months, a regional official said. Emergency services also reported that eight people, including two children, were injured.

“These attacks have no military meaning (…) It is about terrorism, which aims only to destroy lives, to threaten,” condemned President Zelensky.