At least eight people were killed and several others wounded in a fresh round of Russian drone strikes and shelling on February 10 that also damaged port infrastructure critical for Ukraine's food exports, the military and regional officials said.
A drone strike on a fuel depot in the eastern city of Kharkiv -- Ukraine's second-largest -- killed seven people, including three children, and wounded another three, regional Governor Oleh Synyehubov said on Telegram early on February 10.
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Kharkiv chief prosecutor Oleksandr Filchakov said on Telegram that three drones hit the fuel depot in the Nemyshlianskiy district of the city.
Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov earlier said that fuel from the depot set several nearby homes on fire and that some 50 people were evacuated from the area.
"The bodies of five people, including three children, were found in one of the homes," Synyehubov said, adding that two children were aged 4 and 7, while the third one was a 6-month-old baby. "Two more people died in another home," Synyehubov said.
In the Kherson region, Russian troops shelled the village of Veletenske, killing a woman and wounding her elderly parents, the regional military administration reported on Telegram.
"A residential building in which a family lived was hit. The parents were wounded, their daughter died on the spot," the report said.
In the southern region of Odesa, four people were wounded by Russian drones, regional Governor Oleh Kiper said.
He said nine Iranian-made Shahed drones were launched at the Black sea port city of Odesa, all being shot down by Ukrainian air defenses.
"The debris from one of the downed drones damaged port infrastructure, and a port worker was wounded and has been hospitalized," Kiper wrote on Telegram.
A second and third wave of Russian drones targeted Ukraine's Izmayil port on the Danube, Kiper said, adding that port infrastructure and technical facilities were damaged along with trucks and cars. Civilian homes and roads were also damaged by the attack, despite air defenses destroying 12 drones, Kiper said.
"Three port workers were wounded.... All are hospitalized. One of the victims is in serious condition," he said.
NATO said it had deployed Turkish F-16 warplanes from a base in southern Romania on reconnaissance missions after Russia struck port infrastructure at Izmayil and Reni on the Danube, Romania's Defense Ministry said in a statement.
The two ports are located just across the Danube from the border with alliance member Romania. The statement said there were no debris from Russian drones were detected on Romania's territory. Romania has found Russian drone debris on its territory several times before.
Since the collapse in July of a United Nations-brokered deal allowing the safe passage of Ukrainian grain shipments from Black Sea ports, Ukraine has used its Danube ports of Reni and Izmayil on the border with Romania to ship food to the Romanian Black Sea port of Constanta.
Separately, the Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russia launched a total of 31 drones at Ukraine's Kharkiv and Odesa regions on February 10. The Ukrainian air defenses shot down 23 drones, it said.