A RUSSIAN drone attack before dawn on Ukraine’s southern city of Odessa, wounded 14 people, including two children, authorities said today.

The drones hit residential neighbourhoods and civilian infrastructure, said the head of the city’s administration, Serhii Lysak. Russia has repeatedly targeted Odessa, a key Ukrainian Black Sea port.

Five of the injured, most of them with shrapnel wounds, were hospitalised, according to the head of the regional military administration, Oleh Kiper.

Meanwhile, a Ukrainian drone strike killed two people in the Russian-occupied part of Ukraine’s Kherson region, Moscow-installed governor Vladimir Saldo said today.

A man and a woman in their seventies died in the village of Dnipriany, he said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said today that over the past week Russia has fired approximately 1,900 attack drones, nearly 1,400 powerful guided aerial bombs and around 60 missiles of various types at Ukraine.

Ukraine’s wartime development of cutting-edge military technology means it is intercepting more than 90 per cent of the drones that Russia launches, Mr Zelensky claimed on social media.

However, he said Ukraine needs more US-made Patriot air defence missiles to shoot down Russia’s ballistic missiles.

Elsewhere, Norway has become the latest European country to enter a joint drone manufacturing agreement with Kiev, Ukraine’s Defence Ministry said today.

Also, Ukraine has been assailing oil terminals and refineries deep inside Russia with long-range drones and missiles, aiming to disrupt Moscow’s economy.