Russian drones strike the port of Odesa in Ukraine

Russian drones struck critical infrastructure at Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa overnight, in an attack that damaged key facilities but, according to early reports, caused no injuries.

Berths, warehouses, railway infrastructure and facilities used by port operators were hit in the assault, Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba said in a post on the Telegram messaging app.

A cargo ship was also caught in the attack, with Ukraine’s seaports authority saying a strike hit the vessel’s hold and sparked a fire.

Preliminary information indicated that no one was wounded and that the port remained operational, the authority said on Telegram.

Mr Kuleba also said a Russian drone strike on a sorting yard at the Zaporizhzhia-Live station in the southern Zaporizhzhia region killed an assistant train driver. The train driver was taken to hospital, he said.

The Ukrainian air force said Russia had launched 215 drones at the country since 6pm local time yesterday, with 189 of them shot down or otherwise neutralised.

The apartment building gave way in Syzran

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

RIA Novosti, the state news agency, had earlier reported, citing local emergency services, that 12 people were injured.

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