Russian missile strikes kill 18 in Odesa region

At least 18 people, including one child, have died in overnight Russian missile strikes on Ukraine’s southern Odesa region

This was disclosed by Ukrainian officials.

The state emergency service, said 16 people were killed and 30 injured when one missile hit a nine-storey building in the Serhiyivka village.

Two more people, including the child, were killed in a separate strike on the village’s recreation centre.

Russia has fired dozens of missiles on Ukrainian cities in the past few days.

Meanwhile a brigadier general in Ukraine’s armed forces says Russia is using inaccurate missiles from old soviet stocks for more than 50 percent of its strikes in Ukraine

He said  the rate of the strikes has  doubled in the last two weeks.

Russian missiles have hit an array of targets in Ukraine in recent days, including killing at least 18 people at a shopping centre in the central city of Kremenchuk.

On Thursday Brigadier General Oleksii Hromov told a news conference that Russia was trying to hit military and critical infrastructure, but that the use of old soviet-era missiles that are less accurate was leading to significant loss of civilian life.