An air alert was declared in Odessa at 7:25 p.m., local Telegram channels reported. writes BTA.
At 20:00 the city was rocked by an explosion.
The residents of Odessa and Odesa region to take shelter in the bomb shelters, regional governor Oleg Kiper calls.
The threat of a missile attack remains. A reconnaissance drone is circling 15 km from the coast of Odessa, local Telegram channels reported.
Bulgarians in Odesa region number over 150,000 people and are the third most numerous 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.