Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s Odesa kills eight, injures 39, governor says

KYIV (Reuters) – A Russian missile attack killed eight people and wounded 39 in Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa on Monday, local governor Oleh Kiper said.

Four children were among the wounded while three people are in serious condition, Kiper said on the Telegram messenger.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Telegram that a Russian ballistic missile had hit a residential neighbourhood, and that an apartment building, a university building and an administrative building had been damaged.

“These are not random strikes – these are show strikes. After calls and meetings with Putin, after all the false gossip in the media about supposedly ‘refraining’ from strikes. Russia is showing what it is really interested in: only war,” he said.

Russia unleashed its largest overnight missile attack on Ukraine in almost three months on Sunday, killing seven people and further hobbling an already damaged energy system.

Later on, a Russian missile hit a residential building in the Sumy region, killing eight people including a child.

(Reporting by Pavel Polityuk; Editing by Toby Chopra and Kevin Liffey)