Police lift traffic restrictions on Odesa-Reni highway near Mayaki village

Restrictions on traffic in both directions on the M-15 Odesa-Reni highway (to Bucharest) within the village of Mayaki have been lifted.

This was announced by Oleksiy Biloshitsky, First Deputy Head of the Patrol Police Department of Ukraine .

Earlier, the Infrastructure Restoration and Development Service in Odesa Oblast restricted traffic through the village of Mayaki. The restriction was imposed on traffic on the M-15 highway (from the Dva Stolpy patrol police station towards the village of Mayaki). Vehicles were diverted to the M-16 highway (in the direction of Kuchurhany). The exit from the M-05 Kyiv-Odesa highway (road junction in the direction of the Dva Stolpy patrol police station) was also blocked and traffic from the village of Safiany (exit from Izmail, in the direction of Mayaki) was restricted.

On December 19, the Defense Council of Odesa region suspended the movement of freight transport on the M-15 Odesa-Reni highway due to Russian air attacks and damage to the bridge over the Dniester River near the village of Mayaki.

In the evening of December 18, during an attack in Odesa region, an enemy attack drone hit a bridge connecting settlements in the area of the Dniester Estuary and also hit a bridge over the Dniester River near the village of Mayaki. There, it hit a civilian car that was crossing the bridge. The car was occupied by a woman with three children. The mother was seriously injured and died in an ambulance. Her three children were taken to the hospital with injuries and acute stress reaction.

In the evening of December 19, Russia attacked a port infrastructure facility in Odesa district with ballistic missiles. A passenger bus was in the epicenter of the strike, with people on board who were killed and injured. Also, trucks caught fire in the parking lot and cars were damaged. In total, eight people were killed and 27 were injured.

Кирило Бойко