At least 17 people were wounded in Russian strikes on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Tuesday evening, the regional governor said, writes France24.

Governor Oleg Synegubov said that the strikes hit residential buildings in the city centre, injuring at least 17: “Two women are in a serious condition”.

He said that according to preliminary information, the city was hit by two S-300 missiles. After the strikes, the city’s mayor said that some residential buildings were destroyed and that there were no military targets in the area.

A drone attack on Tuesday night also injured three civilians and damaged residential buildings in the southern city of Odessa, according to the head of the region’s military administration, Oleg Kiper: “A 62-year-old man was injured by shrapnel... A woman born in 1955 and a young woman born in 1995 were wounded”.