dpa
Kiev
The death toll in the southern Ukrainian city of Odessa has risen to eight following a Russian missile attack on the port, authorities said on Thursday.
“A 26-year-old man has died in hospital due to the injuries he sustained,” the region’s military governor, Oleh Kiper, wrote on Telegram.
It comes after he earlier announced the death of a 46-year-old dock worker in hospital following Wednesday’s attack.
On Wednesday evening, authorities had recorded six people dead and a dozen injured after the strike on Odessa. Kiper did not provide information about the exact location of the attack.
Observers had reported a ballistic missile heading towards the port of Chornomorsk near Odessa. Local groups posted calls for blood donations on social media.
A further two people were killed in a second Russian drone attack on Wednesday on the south-eastern Ukrainian industrial city of Kryvyi Rih, which damaged a five-storey apartment building.
Ukraine has been defending itself against a full-scale Russian invasion since February 2022.
Ukraine attacks Russia’s North Caucasus region Meanwhile, Russian air defences intercepted 92 Ukrainian drones overnight, the Defence Ministry in Moscow said on Thursday, with the Adygea Republic in the North Caucasus particularly affected.
Adygea’s leader Murat Kumpilov, said the village of Rodnikovy was evacuated after a fire broke out but did not provide details of the drone attack beyond noting that no one was injured.
