Russian drones damage infrastructure, including a maternity hospital and key infrastructure in Ukraine.

Ukraine's officials said that Russia had launched waves of drone attacks against Ukraine. The attack resulted in the deaths of four people, and damage to gas production facilities, port infrastructures, residential buildings, and a maternity ward.

The Ukrainian air force reported that Russian troops had launched 273 drones. They also said the southern Odesa area was the main focus of the attacks.

The Russian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stated that more than 60 drones have been used in the Russian attacks on Odesa.

Zelenskiy stated on Telegram that "there was no military intention at all - it was pure terror directed against the lives of ordinary civilians." "Sadly, the damage is extensive."

ODESA Governor: TWO Killed, 12 wounded in Odesa

Oleh Kiper is the regional governor. He said that two people died and 12 others, including a child were injured in the Odesa attacks.

Naftogaz, the energy company in Ukraine, said that a 55-year old energy worker died when Russia attacked Ukraine's gas-production?facilities located in central Poltava.

The governor also confirmed that a 28-year old man was?killed? in the industrial city of Kryvyi Rih, in the Dnipropetrovsk Region.

The Ukrainian air force claimed that Ukrainian air defence units shot down 252 drones but 21 drones hit targets on 18 sites.

Regional officials reported that the Russian attacks in Odesa's Black Sea port damaged a maternity clinic, residential buildings, and the port infrastructure.

Television footage showed firefighters on the scene of the damaged hospital, with its smashed glass and destroyed roof.

Ihor Shpak told the chief doctor of the hospital that a powerful blast had destroyed the roof and the connecting structures between the?fourth floor and the third floor, as well as some hospital wards.

He said that just before the attack on the shelter, doctors were able to evacuate 32 other patients, including 22 twins who needed ventilator support.

Olena Kudriashova said that she was terrified when Shahed drones flew towards her home.

"On the right and left, at the front and back, there were windows and doors that had been smashed." "Our little window survived and we are so glad we made it through night," she said outside the central Odesa building with smashed glass windows. Iryna Nazarick in Odesa and Olena Harmash, in Kyiv. Editing by Jan Harvey.

(source: Reuters)