Firefighters in Ukraine's Odesa region took cover as two further Russian strikes hit the area where they were battling an industrial blaze, while a separate attack injured four people in Zaporizhzhia, officials said Monday.
Ukraine's State Emergency Service said an overnight strike started the industrial fire. The later strikes damaged rescue equipment, but the crews had sheltered and were unharmed.
At another Odesa location, a strike damaged four garages, destroyed a car and caused a fire. More than 50 rescuers worked at the sites. The agency said preliminary information showed no deaths or injuries in the region.
Acting head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration Mykhailo Semikin said the injured were women ages 22 and 30 and men ages 40 and 61.
The Zaporizhzhia Regional Prosecutor's Office said Russian forces used guided aerial bombs and strike drones, partly destroying a private home and damaging other homes, a hotel and vehicles. The State Emergency Service separately reported damage to hotel windows, two buses, a private home and four outbuildings. Three cars and dry vegetation caught fire. Rescuers searched the area for people who might have been hurt.
An earlier account of attacks across six Ukrainian regions described a separate strike on a Zaporizhzhia shopping mall; officials reported no injuries from that strike.
Ukraine's Air Force said Russia launched 140 drones, including 70 jet-powered drones, plus one Kh-31P missile and three Kh-59/69 missiles overnight. It said defenses shot down or suppressed 112 drones and all three Kh-59/69 missiles. The Air Force recorded impacts at 15 locations and debris at four; several Russian drones remained in Ukrainian airspace when it issued its Oct. 26 update.
