Russia fires third large-scale attack at Ukraine this week, hitting Odesa and Kherson

Russia launched 142 attack and decoy drones in a large-scale drone attack at Ukraine overnight, with explosions reported in Kherson, Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, and Dnipro, the Air Force reported on Telegram.

Out of those, 16 drones struck 10 different locations, and Ukrainian forces shot down 126 drones, the statement added.

At least two people were killed and 14 injured in the southern city of Kherson, local media reported, adding that nine houses, medical and educational facilities, an administrative building, a gas station, and several cars were damaged.

In Odesa, at least one person was injured, media reported, with the most damage in the city of Chornomorsk. The Black Sea port city also saw significant damage to its energy infrastructure, District Governor Oleg Kiper wrote on Telegram, leaving at least 29,000 people without electricity.

"Restoration work has already begun. Critical infrastructure is powered by generators," Kiper added.

The assault marked the third large-scale Russian attack on Ukraine this past week, "through which Russia is demonstrating that without pressure from the world, there will be no end to the war," Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday.

Meanwhile, Zelenskyy reported "heavy losses" to Russian forces in Ukraine's Pokrovsk, where he says Moscow's army is concentrating its greatest efforts.

"Our units continue to carry out their assigned tasks in the Donetsk region and methodically destroy the occupier. Across the front, in just the first eight months of this year, the Russians have lost more than 290,000 soldiers killed and severely wounded," the Ukrainian leader wrote on X on Sunday.