Four injured, including three children in Russian attack on Odesa, Ukraine says

Dec 31 (Reuters) - Russia ⁠launched an ⁠overnight ‍drone attack on Ukraine’s Odesa region, damaging residential buildings and infrastructure and injuring ‍four people, including three children, regional authorities ​said on Wednesday.

Odesa, a major Black Sea port, has been ​repeatedly targeted by Russian missiles and drones during nearly four years of war, with strikes frequently hitting energy, transport ​and port infrastructure as well as residential areas.

"Strike drones attacked residential, logistics and energy ​infrastructure in our region," Oleh Kiper, governor of the Odesa region, ‌said on the Telegram messaging app.

In Odesa city, which is the administrative centre of ​the broader Odesa region, four ⁠people were injured, including a seven-month-old infant, two other children, and a ‌42-year-old man, Serhiy Lisak, the head of Odesa's military administration, said on Telegram.

He said that drone debris ‌and direct hits damaged facades and windows of several high-rise ‌apartment buildings.

Lisak posted images showing smoke billowing from a multi-storey apartment building at night, with flames visible in several ‍windows and what appears to be a firefighter’s water jet aimed at ⁠the facade.

Reuters could not independently verify the reports. There was no immediate comment from Russia about the attacks on Odesa.

(Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by Saad Sayeed)

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