(Reuters) -A Russian drone attack injured four people and damaged energy infrastructure in Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa on Monday, triggering power cuts in the city and knocking out heating systems, local authorities said.
“A strike has damaged energy infrastructure,” regional Governor Oleh Kiper said in a post on the Telegram messaging app. “There are power cuts now in parts of the city.”
Odesa Mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov said two of the injured people have been hospitalised. The attack also damaged several residential houses and two private kindergartens.
Trukhanov also said that heat has since been restored to residential houses after a short break due to the attack that damaged energy infrastructure.
There was no immediate comment from Russia about the attack.
Both sides deny targeting civilians in the war, which Russia started with a full-scale invasion on its smaller neighbour three years ago. But thousands of civilians have since died, the vast majority of them Ukrainian.
(Reporting by Ron Popeski, Oleksandr Kozhukhar and Lidia Klely; Editing by Chris Reese and Christian Schmollinger)
