4-year-old Zlata, a girl who was injured by a rocket attack on April 29, died in the Odesa hospital. Doctors fought for her life for almost a month, the mayor of the city Hennadii Trukhanov said.
The total number of victims from that attack rose to eight.
The head of Odesa regional military administration Oleh Kiper reported that a fragment of a Russian rocket hit the childʼs heart.
On April 29, Russian troops launched a missile attack on Odesa — the attack killed eight people and injured another thirty. As a result of the strike, civilian infrastructure was damaged: residential buildings and the palace of the Odesa Law Academy, better known as "Harry Potterʼs Castle".
Among the dead is Borys Vasiliev, vice-rector for issues of educational and innovative development and economic activity of the academy of the International Humanitarian University.