Odessa was attacked last night with a ballistic missile with cluster munitions, the president of Odessa announced regional military administration Oleg Kiper in the "Telegram" application, quoted by BTA.
There was a loud explosion in the central part of the city. According to the regional governor, the target of the attack was the port infrastructure.
"Two people were injured: a 28-year-old girl and a 37-year-old man. They are currently hospitalized in a medium serious condition", Oleg Kiper also pointed out.
Bulgarians in Odesa Region number over 150,000 people and are the third largest according to the official census in Ukraine in 2001. About 50-60 thousand Bulgarians live in the city of Odesa itself. The largest compact Bulgarian population is concentrated in the Bolgrad, Izmail and Belgorodnist regions.
Hungary's ruling party, Viktor Orbán, boycotted last night's extraordinary parliamentary session called by the opposition because of Russian cyberattacks, which the government downplayed, AFP reported, quoted by BTA.
"The scandal is not that Russian hackers attacked Hungary," opposition MP Bence Tordai told the French agency, "but that the government did not react". "It is silent when Hungarian classified data and that of our European Union and NATO allies have been acquired by Russian spies," he added.
In a statement sent to AFP, the party "Fidesz" of Viktor Orbán stated that this " initiative of the left" is a "farce" and that she will not "participate in the meeting". She defined as "lies from the election campaign" press releases published before the 2022 parliamentary elections alleging that Russian services had penetrated the MFA's systems a year earlier.
But in mid-May, news site 444 published a Hungarian intelligence report it had obtained that listed the damage caused by the hacking attacks. According to the document, "more than 4,000 desktop computers and more than 930 servers were compromised" from the APT 28 group of the Russian military intelligence GRU and the APT 29 group of the Federal Security Service.
Last week, nationalist leader Viktor Orbán tried to play down the significance of the hacking attack.
"Attempts to access foreign data are a daily occurrence for every country and Hungary is no exception," said Orban, the only EU leader to maintain a high level of cooperation with Moscow despite Russia's invasion of Ukraine. "From north to south, from east to west, there are constant attempts to penetrate," he told the tabloid "Blik".
The government insists that it believes "no confidential data" have not "fallen into the hands of a foreigner" and that in this respect the attack "failed".