- Missile strikes hit an apartment building and a recreation centre in Serhiivka.
- There was no immediate comment from Russia on the strikes. Ukrainian officials accuse Russian forces of shelling relentlessly the city of Lysychansk.
- Ukraine is a major agricultural exporter in peacetime, but Russia’s invasion has damaged farmland and led to food shortages.
Missile strikes killed 19 people and injured dozens more in Ukraine’s Odessa region on Friday, a day after Russian troops abandoned positions on a strategic island, effectively ending the Kremlin’s invasion.
Two children were killed, and six others were injured, according to Ukrainian officials, just one day after US Vice President Joe Biden announced $800 million in new weapons for Kyiv at a NATO summit.
The missiles slammed into an apartment building and a recreation centre early Friday in the town of Serhiivka about 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of the Black Sea port of Odessa, which has become a strategic flashpoint in the conflict.
“The death toll is 19 people,” wrote Sergiy Kruk, head of the Ukrainian emergency services, on Facebook. Thirty-eight people were wounded, including six children, he added.
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, a senior official at the Ukrainian presidency, earlier put the death toll at 18, including two children.
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