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Russian drones strike Ukraine's Odesa port

Rescuers work at the site of a Russian drone strike on odea port
Firefighters work at the site of the drone attack in Odesa (Pic: State Emergency Service of Ukraine)

Russian drones attacked infrastructure in ⁠Ukraine's Black Sea Odesa port overnight, Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba has said.

Berths, warehouses, railway infrastructure and port operators' facilities were damaged in the assault, Mr Kuleba wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

The hold of a cargo ship was also ‌hit, causing ⁠a fire Ukraine's seaports authority said.

According to preliminary information no one was hurt in the attack, and the port was still operating, the authority said on Telegram.

Russia has ‌repeatedly targeted maritime export routes more than four years after its ⁠invasion of Ukraine, striking ports vital ‌to foreign trade and the wartime economy.

Mr Kuleba said ⁠a ‌Russian drone attack at a sorting yard at the Zaporizhzhia-Live station in the southern Zaporizhzhia region killed an ⁠assistant train driver. The train driver was hospitalised, ⁠he added.

The Ukrainian air force said Russia had launched 215 drones at the country since 6pm local time yesterday and 189 had been downed or neutralised.

rescue workers stand on top of the rubble of a damaged apartment building in Russia
The apartment building collapsed in Syzran

Elsewhere, two ⁠people were killed after part of an apartment building collapsed ‌in ⁠the Russian city of Syzran after a Ukrainian drone attack, local ‌emergency services said.

The ‌RIA Novosti state news ⁠agency, ‌citing local emergency services, said earlier that ⁠12 people had ⁠been injured.


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