Russia hits Ukraine's Odesa, Dnipro with drones and missiles overnight, officials say


May 18 (Reuters) - Russia ⁠attacked Ukraine with drones and missiles overnight, ⁠targeting the cities of Odesa in the south ‌and Dnipro in the southeast, injuring a total of 11, with two boys among them, Ukrainian officials said on Monday.

In ​the major Black Sea export port ⁠of Odesa, drones ⁠hit residential buildings, a school and a kindergarten, Serhiy ⁠Lysak, ‌the head of the local military administration, said on messaging app Telegram.

An 11-year-old boy ⁠and a 59-year-old man were injured in ​the attack, ‌he added.

Russia hit the southeastern Ukrainian city of ⁠Dnipro with ​missiles in a separate attack, injuring nine people, including a 10-year old boy, regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha ⁠said on Telegram.

In Russia, drones were ​downed overnight in the southern region of Rostov, including the port city of Taganrog on the Sea of ⁠Azov, regional governor Yuri Slyusar said on Telegram.

At least four died, three of them in the Moscow region, after Ukraine launched its biggest overnight drone ​attack on the Russian capital ⁠in more than a year, officials said on ​Sunday.

Reuters could not independently verify battlefield ‌reports. Both sides deny deliberately ​targeting civilians.

(Reporting by Jekaterīna Golubkova in Tokyo; Editing by Himani Sarkar and Clarence Fernandez)

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