The death toll[/B] has risen to 17 from a Russian missile that hit a 9-storey apartment building on the outskirts of Odessa in the early hours of the morning, the major port of southern Ukraine.
Children are among the dead, according to Ukraine's emergency response services, specifying that the search and rescue operation, hampered by a fire, is still ongoing.
An earlier report put the death toll at 14.
The Russian missile hit a "nine-story apartment building in the Bilgorod-Dniester region," about 80 kilometers south of Odessa, according to Sherhiy Bratchuk, the spokesman for the Odessa regional authorities.
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At the same time, the spokesman warned users of social networking sites not to reveal the movements of troops and first aid services.
"A rescue operation is underway, don't write where, or by whom, or when!" to avoid endangering military personnel, he told a TV station in his country.
Source: Proto Thema
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