For the second night in a row, Russia carried out a massive airstrike on the Ukrainian port of Odesa, which a Ukrainian official called “hell” on Wednesday.

The attack was “very strong, really massive,” Odesa regional administration spokesman Serhiy Bratchuk said in a voice message on his Telegram channel on Wednesday, Reuters quoted.

“It was a night from hell,” he said, adding that details of the destruction and casualties would be announced soon.

The attacks on Odesa, one of Ukraine’s main ports for grain exports, came after Russia vowed to retaliate following Monday’s explosion on a bridge linking Russia to the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow blamed on Ukraine.

Shortly after the bridge was shelled on Monday, Moscow pulled out of the Black Sea grain agreement that had allowed safe Ukrainian exports, a move the United Nations said could cause world hunger.

“(They) are trying to scare the whole world, especially those who want to work for the grain corridor… Ukraine, Turkey and the UN,” Bratchuk said.

“But I think that all normal, rational people will look and say: Odesa was not afraid, is not afraid and will not be afraid – we will work.”

Much of Ukraine came under threat of air strikes after midnight on Wednesday, while Russia struck elsewhere, including a drone attack on Kyiv.

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