A Russian ballistic missile attack Wednesday on the Ukrainian port city of Odesa killed three people and injured three others, the region’s governor said.
Governor Oleh Kiper said there was also damage to civil infrastructure from the attack, the second deadly round of strikes to hit Odesa in as many days.
Russia’s defense ministry said Wednesday it thwarted Ukrainian drone attacks targeting several Russian regions.
The ministry said its air defenses destroyed three drones over the Voronezh region and one drone each over the Belgorod, Kursk and Ryazan regions.
Aleksandr Gusev, the governor of Voronezh, reported falling debris from a drone damaged a house, but no injuries.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy again used his nightly address Tuesday to call for allies to quickly send military aid to Ukraine.
"We need a significant speed-up of deliveries to strengthen the capabilities of our soldiers tangibly," Zelenskyy said. "It is not Russian air bombs and assault operations that should dominate the front line, but our Ukrainian initiative — our air defense, our artillery, our drones."
The president said what Ukraine is "really counting on" is "the promptness of the U.S. deliveries" that should be "felt in the destroyed logistics of the occupiers, in their fear to deploy in any part of the occupied territory ... everywhere where Russia is pushing and where we have to push it back. And also everywhere where new strike threats may arise."
The United States has pledged to speed new deliveries to Ukraine after lawmakers approved $61 billion in new aid for Ukraine that had been stalled for months.
Some information for this report came from Reuters, The Associated Press and Agence France-Presse.
