Russia launches new drone and missile strikes on Ukraine, injuring at least 12

Russia launched a fresh wave of drone and missile strikes on cities in Ukraine overnight, local authorities said, with at least 12 people reported injured.

Reports of the Russian strikes come after Ukraine launched hundreds of drone strikes over the weekend, in which the Moscow region was targeted.

Those strikes in turn came after at least 24 people were killed and 50 others were injured in Russian attacks on Kyiv.

Central and southern Ukraine targeted

Residential buildings along with a school and kindergarten were hit in the Black Sea port city of Odesa, head of the local military administration, Serhiy Lysak, said on the Telegram messaging app.

Lysak said there were further attacks on infrastructure in the area but had no further information as to whether there were more victims.

In the city of Dnipro in the southeast, at least 9 people were injured including a child, regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha said on Telegram.

While reports of the latest attacks cannot be independently verified, Dnipro and Odesa are regularly targeted by Russian missile and drone strikes.

Meanwhile, governor of Russia's Rostov Oblast, Yuri Slyusar, said on Telegram that forces had repelled an air attack in the region with drones destroyed in Taganrog, Kamensky and Azov districts.

The reported strikes cannot also be independently verified.

Zelenskyy: Ukraine's long-range capabilities 'changing the situation'

On Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed to launch retaliatory strikes after the deadly Russian strikes on Kyiv.

Over the weekend, Zelenskyy said that Ukraine's long-range capabilities were "significantly changing the situation."

"The war is quite predictably returning to its 'native harbor,' and this is a clear signal that one should not pick a fight with Ukraine or wage an unjust war of conquest against another people," Zelenskyy said in a video message posted on X.

Edited by: Wesley Dockery