Overnight Russian airstrikes pound Ukraine, killing two

Russia bombarded Ukraine with airstrikes overnight, killing at least two people, local authorities said on Monday.

A strike on the Black Sea port city of Odessa killed one man and damaged civilian infrastructure, the regional military governor, Oleh Kiper, said.

The military governor of Ukraine's southern Kherson region, Olexander Prokudin, said a 35-year-old man was fatally injured when a drone hit a tractor near the town of Beryslav.

In north-eastern Kharkiv, drone attacks on residential buildings injured 27 people, including three children, the city's mayor, Ihor Terekhov, said.

According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia deployed 101 drones and decoy drones during the night, 58 of which were shot down and 17 downed electronically. Moscow also reportedly fired four repurposed S-300/400 air defence missiles.

The Defence Ministry in Moscow said it had shot down 93 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory and the annexed Crimean peninsula.

Ukraine repeatedly attacks targets in Russia as part of its defence against Moscow's full-scale invasion. The damage caused by Ukrainian strikes is far more limited than the destruction caused by Russian attacks in Ukraine.