Russian forces launched 270 drones at Ukraine in a single overnight barrage that left Odesa bearing the heaviest damage, according to Ukraine’s air force. The air force also reported a broader series of attacks involving nearly 400 drones over a wider period.

Russian forces launched a drone attack on the city of Odesa overnight on April 5, damaging residential buildings and injuring at least three people, local officials reported. The head of the Odesa City Military Administration,

The Russian Defense Ministry said that Ukrainian drones struck the Novorossiysk oil terminal, one of Russia’s largest Black Sea ports, overnight. The attack damaged a pipeline, loading and unloading berths, and set fire to four tanks holding petroleum products.

Last night, the Russians launched a massive strike on Odesa. There was no military purpose whatsoever — this was pure terror against ordinary civilian life, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

Russian drones struck several apartment buildings in Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa, triggering fires and injuring at least ​three people, local officials said early on Thursday.

At least three people, including a 2-year-old girl, were killed in an overnight drone strike on Odesa. Officials report 141 drones flown.