A UKRAINIAN drone attack left at least seven people dead and a Russian strike on Odessa killed two people today, officials said, hours after Kiev and Washington signed an agreement granting US access to Ukraine’s mineral resources.

The attack in the partially occupied Kherson region of southern Ukraine, which struck a market in the town of Oleshky, killed seven and wounded more than 20 people, Moscow-appointed governor Vladimir Saldo said.

“At the time of the attack, there were many people in the market,” Mr Saldo wrote on Telegram. After the first wave of strikes, he said, Ukraine sent further drones to “finish off” any survivors.