Ukraine war: Odesa and Melitopol under attack - BBC

Southern Ukraine has been deed by strikes from some sides successful the war, with Russia launching drones astatine Odesa and Kyiv warring backmost successful Melitopol.

The Ukrainian service said it changeable down 10 drones connected Saturday but different 5 had deed vigor facilities, leaving immoderate 1.5 cardinal radical without power.

Later on, the exiled Ukrainian politician of Melitopol said a onslaught had been carried retired connected the Russian-held city.

Images shared by a Russian-installed authoritative determination amusement a large fire.

Russia's drone onslaught connected the Ukrainian larboard metropolis of Odesa saw Moscow occurrence Iranian-made drones astatine cardinal infrastructure, Ukrainian officials said.

"The concern successful the Odesa portion is precise difficult," President Volodymyr Zelensky said successful his nightly video address. "Unfortunately the hits were critical, truthful it takes much than conscionable clip to reconstruct electricity. It doesn't instrumentality hours, but a fewer days."

Since October, Moscow has been targeting Ukraine's vigor infrastructure with ample waves of rocket and drone strikes.

In Melitopol, pro-Moscow authorities said a rocket onslaught had killed 2 radical and injured 10, portion Ivan Fedorov, the exiled mayor, said scores of "invaders" had been killed.

"Air defence systems destroyed 2 missiles, 4 reached their targets," Yevgeny Balitsky, the Moscow-appointed politician of the occupied portion of the Zaporizhzhia region, said connected the Telegram messaging app.

He added that a "recreation centre" wherever radical were eating had been destroyed successful the Ukrainian onslaught with Himars missiles.