At least nine people were wounded and some killed by a Russian strike on the Ukrainian port city of Mykolaiv on Thursday, regional governor Vitaliy Kim said, and authorities in Odesa also reported fresh strikes on the region.
A three-story residential building was hit in the Mykolaiv city center, Kim wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
According to Odesa administration speaker Serhiy Bratchuk, two people were hospitalized after a strike on Odesa which damaged a building and caused a fire.
Another strike was reported outside the city, he wrote on Telegram.