Five people were injured and one of the most important museums in Odessa in southern Ukraine was damaged when Russia’s military launched missile strikes on Sunday night, officials in the Black Sea port said.

Today, November 6, “Odessa’s national art museum turns 124 years old,” Oleh Kiper, the Odesa regional governor, said via Telegram. “On the eve of November 6, the Russians ‘congratulated’ our architectural monument with a missile that fell a short distance away,” he added.

Walls of the building were damaged and windows and panes were broken, he added.

The museum, one of the oldest palaces in Odessa, housed 10,000 art objects before the war, including paintings by some of the most famous Russian and Ukrainian artists of the 19th and 20th centuries.

The city council of Odessa released video showing broken windows and debris inside the national art museum of Odessa and paintings hanging on the walls.

“The situation is under control, but everything should be thoroughly examined to make sure everything is OK,” Odesa Mayor Hennadi Trukhanov was quoted as saying by Ukrainian news website Suspilne.

On the road near the museum the attack left a crater of several meters. According to municipal authorities, one person was injured there.

According to Mr. Kiper, the five people who were injured in different areas of the city were taken to hospitals.