At Russian shelling at least three people were killed and another 9 people were injured in the northeastern Kharkiv region in Ukraine, Reuters reported, citing BTA, citing a statement from the regional prosecutor's office.
Another person died of his wounds in hospital after the Russian attack on the village of Borova, southeast of the city of Kharkiv, the statement said.
Kharkov is the second largest city in Ukraine and is often the target of Russian airstrikes.
Earlier today, Ukraine's interior ministry said emergency services teams were already at the scene of the initial attack when Russian troops fired back at them. Among the injured are three of the rescuers.
The Ukrainian prosecutor's office also said that 5 people were injured in a Russian airstrike in the Kievsky district of the city of Kharkiv.
In Odessa and the region, an air alert was announced at 01:40, wrote in "Telegram" the chairman of the Odesa regional military administration Oleg Kiper.
Local authorities call on the population to take shelter in safe places.
After about an hour, loud explosions were heard in various places in the Ukrainian Black Sea city.
The threat of a Russian air attack on Odessa remains.
Bulgarians in Odesa Region number over 150,000 people and are the third largest according to the official census in Ukraine in 2001. In the city of Odesa itself live about 50-60 thousand Bulgarians. The largest compact Bulgarian population is concentrated in the Bolgrad, Izmail and Belgorodnist regions.
American Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink "strongly condemned" the Russian attack on a cargo ship with Ukrainian grain in the Black Sea last night as a violation of international law and a threat to food security, reported Reuters, quoted by BTA.
"We strongly condemn yesterday's attack by Russia against a commercial cargo ship in the Black Sea," the US ambassador wrote on the social platform "X".
"This more serious attack is a gross violation of international law that threatens global food security," Brink added.
The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, announced yesterday that the cargo ship carrying Ukrainian grain to Egypt was hit by a Russian missile shortly after it left Ukrainian territorial waters. According to him, there were no injuries.