KYIV ¨C A Russian missile strike in Ukraine¡¯s southern port of Odesa early on Friday killed at least 17 people and wounding dozens, Ukrainian authorities said, the latest in a spate of deadly missile strikes.
With its ground forces concentrated in Ukraine¡¯s eastern industrial region of Donbas, Russia has more than doubled the number of missile strikes around the country in the past two weeks, using inaccurate Soviet-era missiles for more than half of the attacks, according to a Ukrainian brigadier general.
One missile struck a nine-story building in the town of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi at about 1 a.m. (22:00 GMT Thursday), the Ukrainian emergencies ministry said. It also caused a fire in an attached store building.
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