At least 11 hurt in Russian raids on Ukraine’s Mykolaiv, Odesa | Russia-Ukraine war News

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Latest Russian air attacks hit Ukrainian port cities of Mykolaiv and Odesa, local officials say.

At least nine people have been wounded and some killed by a Russian air attack on the Ukrainian port city of Mykolaiv, regional governor Vitaliy Kim said, while authorities in the Odesa region reported a third night of air raids.

A three-storey residential building was hit in the Mykolaiv city centre early on Thursday morning, Kim wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

Ukrainska Pravda, a Ukrainian online newspaper, reported that three children were among those injured in Mykolaiv.  A residential building and several garages caught fire in the city centre as a result of the attack, the news outlet said.

Ukraine’s air force warned on Telegram that supersonic missiles had been launched by Russia in the direction of the Odesa region on Thursday morning. It called on people to stay undercover.

According to Odesa administration spokesperson Serhiy Bratchuk, two people were hospitalised after a Russian attack on Odesa city damaged a building and caused a fire. Another attack was reported outside the city, he wrote on Telegram.

There were also reports of an attack in Russian-controlled Crimea early on Thursday.

The Moscow-installed governor of the region said a Ukrainian drone attack in northwest Crimea had damaged administrative buildings and killed a teenage girl.

“As a result of an attack by an enemy UAV, four administrative buildings were damaged in one of the settlements in the northwest of Crimea,” Sergei Aksyonov said on Telegram.

“Unfortunately, it didn’t pass without victims – a teenage girl died.”

This is a developing story. More to follow soon.