Ukraine: ‘Harry Potter Castle’ catches fire after Russian attack

Russia carried out its attack on Monday in the vicinity of a historic building in Odessa known as ‘the castle of Harry Potter‘ with an Iskander missile loaded with cluster munitions, which makes the Ukrainian Prosecutor’s Office think that he sought to kill as many as possible ukrainian civilians.

Five people were killed in the attack and thirty others were injured. Some of the victims were walking in the area at the time of the missile drop.

In addition to causing a fire in this castle, which is located on the shores of the Black Sea, in the tourist district of Arcadia (Odessa) and belongs to a university foundation, the cluster munition explosions damaged other buildings in the area.

“The attack was carried out with an Iskander ballistic missile with cluster munition in the warhead. This is indiscriminate weaponry“, reads a statement from the Ukrainian prosecutor’s officewhich adds that metal fragments and parts of the missile were found within a 1.5 kilometer radius.

The Prosecutor’s Office adds that “There is reason to believe that the decision to use this weaponry” in the attack by Russia was looking for “kill as many Ukrainian civilians as possible”.

Along with the statement, the Prosecutor’s Office has distributed a video in which you can see the explosions of the multiple submunitions or bomblets to which the cluster munition.

Cluster munitions are typically used to destroy multiple targets located within a certain distance of each other. This type of ammunition is usually used to hit tank or infantry formations and damage or knock out the largest number of armored vehicles or combatants scattered in a certain area.

According to the military expert of Odessa, Alexander Kovalenko, this is the first time Russia uses cluster munition against the city. “The idea of ​​this type of ammunition is to hit a wide area, which is what happened yesterday in Odessa, only the blow was not directed at military objectivesbut civilians“, He has written Kovalenko on their social networks.

Kovalenko He stated that there were no military objectives in the area.