{"id":26949,"date":"2025-02-01T07:49:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T07:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=26949"},"modified":"2025-02-01T07:49:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T07:49:58","slug":"russian-missile-attack-on-world-heritage-site-in-odesa-damages-historic-buildings-wounds-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2025\/02\/russian-missile-attack-on-world-heritage-site-in-odesa-damages-historic-buildings-wounds-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian missile attack on world heritage site in Odesa damages historic buildings, wounds 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; Russian forces launched missiles on the center of southern Ukraine\u2019s port city of Odesa, a UNESCO world heritage site, seriously damaging historic buildings and injuring seven people on Friday night, local officials said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, condemned the \u201cdeliberate strike\u201d that again underscored the need to strengthen Ukraine\u2019s air defenses.<\/p>\n<p>He says Norwegian diplomats among those in epicenter of \u2018deliberate strike\u2019 on UNESCO-listed district.<\/p>\n<p>Seven people were injured and emergency crews remained at the scene, said Odesa\u2019s regional governor, Oleh Kiper. All the injured were in \u201cmoderate\u201d condition and receiving medical assistance, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures posted online by Kiper and Odesa\u2019s mayor, Hennady Trukhanov, showed the lobby and other parts of the Hotel Bristol, a luxury landmark built at the end of the 19th century, reduced to rubble.<\/p>\n<p>The Odesa Philharmonic concert hall, opposite the hotel, was damaged with many of its windows smashed. Museums in the district also were damaged, reported The Guardian.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian forces launched missiles on the center of southern Ukraine\u2019s port city of Odesa, a UNESCO world heritage site, seriously damaging historic buildings and injuring seven people on Friday night, local officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":26950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,978,194,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-security","category-world","category-headline"],"views":38,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26951,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26949\/revisions\/26951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}