Russia pummels Ukraine with drone and missile strikes, killing at least 12

Missile and drone attacks on the port city of Odesa killed six people, with other fatalities recorded in Kyiv and Dnipro Russian strikes killed at least 12 people in Ukraine, local authorities have said, after Moscow pummelled its neighbour in overnight attacks. Missile and drone attacks on the southern port city of Odesa killed six people, the head of the city’s military administration, Sergiy Lysak, wrote on Telegram on Thursday. Strikes on the capital Kyiv killed at least four people, including a 12-year-old, the state emergency service of Ukraine said, while another two people died in the central city of Dnipro, according to Oleksandr Ganzha, the head of the regional administration. Ganzha said earlier that the attack had wounded 10 people, including a 40-year-old woman who had been taken to hospital “in a serious condition”. It was not immediately clear if the woman was the person reported dead. Rescuers in Kyiv pulled a child from the rubble of a residential building that collapsed in the Podilsky district, said the mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko. The attack on the capital wounded at least 10 people, including several medics, he added. A blaze broke out at a building in the