Eight dead, dozens wounded in Russian strike on Ukraine’s Odesa port

Eight people were killed and 27 wounded in a Russian missile strike on port infrastructure in Odesa, southern Ukraine, late last night, Ukraine’s Emergency Service says this morning.

Some of the wounded were on a bus at the epicenter of the overnight strike, the service says in a Telegram post. Trucks caught fire in the parking lot, and cars were also damaged.

The port was struck with ballistic missiles, says Oleh Kiper, the head of the Odesa region.

Death toll rises to 8 after Russian ballistic missile strike on port infrastructure in Odesa region. On Friday evening, the Russian army carried out a massive ballistic missile attack against port infrastructure in Odesa district, Governor Oleh Kiper reported.

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Elsewhere, Ukrainian forces hit a Russian warship and other facilities with drones, Ukraine’s General Staff says in a statement this morning.

The overnight attack hit the Russian warship “Okhotnik,” according to the statement posted to the Telegram messaging app.

The ship was patrolling in the Caspian Sea near an oil and gas production platform. The extent of the damage is still being clarified, the statement adds.

A drilling platform at the Filanovsky oil and gas field in the Caspian Sea was also hit. The facility is operated by Russian oil giant Lukoil. Ukrainian drones also struck a radar system in the Krasnosilske area of Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014.