Missile strikes postal depot in Ukraine's Odesa, 14 injured
Ukrainian officials said a Russian missile attack injured 14 people Thursday at a postal facility in the southern city of Odesa, Reuters reports.
The attack was the third to hit the city this week, including strikes that killed a total of eight people.
Oleh Kiper, the regional governor of Odesa, said the latest attack was another crime committed by Russia against Ukrainian civilians.
Russia has denied targeting civilians during its invasion of Ukraine but has repeatedly struck Ukrainian cities with drones and missiles during more than two years of attacks.
Russian officials reported Ukrainian drone attacks Thursday targeting several regions.
Andrei Klychkov, the governor of the Oryol region, said Russian air defenses intercepted Ukrainian drones over two districts, but that energy infrastructure was damaged and there were power outages in the area.
In Smolensk, the regional governor, Vaisly Anokhin, said the Ukrainian drones tried to attack an energy facility.
Roman Staravoit, the governor in the Kursk region, said Russian forces downed a Ukrainian drone there, but that there was also damage to power lines.
The United States accused Russia Wednesday of breaching a global chemicals ban by deploying the choking agent chloropicrin against Ukrainian troops.
The State Department also accused Russia of using riot control agents "as a method of warfare" in Ukraine.
"The use of such chemicals is not an isolated incident and is probably driven by Russian forces' desire to dislodge Ukrainian forces from fortified positions and achieve tactical gains on the battlefield," the State Department said in a statement.
Additionally, Russian forces have used grenades loaded with CS and CN tear gasses, according to the Ukrainian military. It said at least 500 Ukrainian soldiers have been treated for exposure to toxic substances, and one was killed by suffocating on tear gas.
