Russian forces kill several in Ukraine, launch ‘brutal’ attack in Odesa

An overnight Russian attack on an apartment building has killed two people in Ukraine’s northeastern city of Kharkiv as Moscow also keeps up its attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure.

Russian forces hit a high rise in the Saltivskyi district, killing a 50-year-old man and a 66-year-old man, Kharkiv Governor Oleh Syniehubov wrote on Telegram. At least 21 people were wounded.

Photos of the scene shared by Syniehubov showed a gaping hole across four storeys of the building as thick smoke billowed out of it.

In the southern region of Kherson, Russian artillery killed a 61-year-old woman in the Berislavsky district early on Sunday, according to the regional prosecutor’s office.

And in the Dnipropetrovsk region’s city of Pavlohrad, an “absolutely wicked” attack near a shopping mall wounded nine people, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on X. The injured included four children.

There were also attacks on the Zhytomyr, Mykolaiv, Kyiv, Kherson, Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhia and Donetsk regions, Zelenskyy said.

In Russia, the TASS news agency reported that Ukrainian drone attacks killed three civilians overnight in Belgorod.

Moscow has also taken aim at the southwestern region of Odesa, a frequent site of deadly attacks.