Russia fired five missiles from the Black Sea overnight and two of them were shot down by air defences over the Odesa region of Ukraine, the regional administration said.
The other three hit an agricultural facility but there were no casualties.
Dnipropetrovsk governor Valentyn Reznichenko wrote on Telegram that the city of Nikopol, which lies across the Dnipro river from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, was shelled on five different occasions overnight.
He said 25 artillery shells hit the city, causing a large fire at an industrial premises and cutting power to 3,000 inhabitants.
The southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv was hit with multiple S-300 missiles early today, regional governor Vitaliy Kim said on Telegram.
Reuters could not independently the confirm battlefield reports.
It comes as the daughter of an ultra-nationalist Russian ideologue who advocates Russia absorbing Ukraine was killed in a suspected car bomb attack outside Moscow.
Also today, four more ships carrying foodstuffs have left Ukraine's ports, Turkey's Defence Ministry said.
This brings the total number of vessels to leave Ukraine's Black Sea ports under a UN-brokered grain export deal to 31.
Among them was the Navi Star, a ship carrying a cargo of 33,000 tonnes of grain for animal use, that yesterday arrived at the port of Foynes in Co Limerick.
A Russian missile yesterday hit a residential area in the vicinity of a Ukrainian nuclear power station amid heightened fears of a nuclear accident.
Twelve civilians - including three children - were reportedly wounded in the attack.
Vitaliy Kim, governor of the southern Mykolaiv region, said the strike damaged several private houses and a five-storey apartment building in Voznesensk.
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Meanwhile, US Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo has warned that Russian entities and individuals were attempting to use Turkey to bypass Western sanctions.
The warning came during a call with Turkey's Deputy Finance Minister Yunus Elitas yesterday.
Elsewhere, Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk has beaten Britain's Anthony Joshua on a split-points decision to retain his WBA,WBO, IBF and IBO belts in Jeddah.
Russia admits using hypersonic missiles
Russia has deployed hypersonic Kinzhal (Dagger) missiles three times over the course of what Moscow calls a "special military operation" in Ukraine, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said today.
The Kinzhal missiles are part of an array of new hypersonic weapons President Vladimir Putin presented in 2018 in a bellicose speech in which he said they could hit almost any point in the world and evade a US-built missile shield.
Mr Shoigu, speaking on state television, said the missiles had proved effective in hitting high-value targets on all three occasions, hailing them as without compare and almost impossible to take down when in flight.
"We have deployed it three times during the special military operation," he said in an interview broadcast on Rossiya 1. "And three times it showed brilliant characteristics."
Russia first used the Kinzhal system in Ukraine about a month after sending tens of thousands of troops into its neighbour's territory, striking a large weapons depot in Ukraine's western Ivano-Frankivsk region.
This week, Russia's defence ministry said three MiG-31E warplanes equipped with Kinzhal missiles had been relocated to the Kaliningrad region, a Russian Baltic coast exclave located between NATO and European Union members Poland and Lithuania.
On Russia's Navy Day late last month, Vladimir Putin announced that the navy would receive what he called "formidable" hypersonic Zircon cruise missiles in coming months.
The missiles can travel at nine times the speed of sound, outrunning air defences.
