A building belonging to the security service, as well as an apartment block, hit in night-time strike on the central Ukrainian city
Many of the great Russian-language writers were from Odesa or spent time there, its residents largely speak Russian and its Transfiguration Cathedral was consecrated by Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, in 2010.
But recent strikes targeting the southern Ukrainian city, including the cathedral, have left residents questioning its historical links to Russia.
