Moscow has intensified its nightly attacks on major Ukrainian cities in recent weeks while Kyiv has launched a long-awaited counteroffensive to reclaim territory occupied by Russian forces. Four of the victims were foresters, they said.

Ukrainian prosecutors said the Soviet-era van was hit near the village of Seredyna-Buda, on the border with Russia in the northeastern region of Sumy. Kyiv also reported that Russian shelling of a van in northeastern Ukraine, near the border with Russia, had left six people dead a day earlier. In the eastern cities of Kramatorsk and Kostiantynivka, Russian missile strikes overnight killed three people and destroyed dozens of private houses, regional authorities said. In January, the United Nations cultural agency UNESCO designated the city's historic center as a World Heritage in Danger site. It has been repeatedly bombed since Russia invaded in February last year. Six other people were wounded after a business center, shops and a residential complex in central Odesa were damaged 'as a result of air combat and the blast wave,' he said.Ī historic city on the Black Sea, Odesa was once a favorite holiday destination for many Ukrainians and Russians. 'There may be people under the rubble,' he added. One of the missiles hit a food warehouse, killing three employees and wounding seven, Oleg Kiper, the head of the region's military administration, said on Telegram.

Russia fired four Kalibr missiles on the southern port city of Odesa from a warship in the Black Sea, Ukraine's air force said, with air defenses shooting down three of them. Deadly Russian missile strikes hit southern and eastern Ukraine on Wednesday as the Western-backed country's air defenses fought back against Moscow's intensified attacks.

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