Two people killed, eight injured and six missing after Russian drone crashed into apartment block in southern port city, authorities say
Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said a child was injured in the reported strike on the Odesa apartments.
Posting on X, the Ukraine president made a further plea for military support to “effectively protect our people from Russian terror”.
The Dutch prime minister, Mark Rutte, signed a security deal with Ukraine in Kharkiv on Friday and said the Netherlands would help fund the supply of 800,000 artillery shells. Rutte met President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on a surprise visit to the north-eastern city, just 40km (26 miles) from the Russian border, and became the seventh western leader to sign a 10-year security agreement with Ukraine in the past two months.
Three people were killed in a drone attack on a car in the Russia-controlled part of Ukraine’s Kherson region, the Moscow-installed governor said on Friday. Vladimir Saldo did not provide any details of the attack.
Russia is accumulating large forces around Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine as it seeks to make a breakthrough in the Donetsk region, a Ukrainian official said on Friday. Illia Yevlash, spokesperson for the operational group overseeing the eastern frontline, told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty that Russian forces were concentrating efforts to make a push on the strategic city to the west of Bakhmut, which fell to Moscow last May, hoping to advance towards Kostiantynivka, Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.
