Several missiles hit the southern Ukrainian port city of Odessa on Saturday, the regional administration’s spokesman Serhiy Bratchuk said in televised remarks.
Bratchuk said the strikes hit the city after targets in the surrounding Odessa region had been hit by four missiles earlier in the day.
He did not give further detail about the new strikes, saying that the facts were still being established.
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Reuters was not able to immediately confirm details of the report.
Separately on Saturday, Ukrainian authorities said air-launched Russian missiles hit two locations near the Russian border in Ukraine’s northern Sumy region.
A border guard was wounded by the strikes on the Myropilske and Khotin municipalities, local governor Dmytro Zhyvytskyi wrote in a post on the Telegram messaging app.
Reuters was not able to immediately confirm details of the report.
Russian forces fully withdrew from Sumy region in early April after advancing into parts of the region at the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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