At least nine people were wounded and some killed by a Russian strike on the Ukrainian port city of Mykolaiv on Thursday, regional governor Vitaliy Kim said, and authorities in Odesa also reported fresh strikes on the region.

A three-storey residential building was hit in the Mykolaiv city centre, Kim wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

Russia strikes Ukraine’s Odesa port in ‘hellish’ attack: official

According to Odesa administration speaker Serhiy Bratchuk, two people were hospitalised after a strike on Odesa which damaged a building and caused a fire.

Another strike was reported outside the city, he wrote on Telegram.