At least five people were killed and one woman was injured in the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv overnight as a result of a Russian drone attack, Governor Vitalii Kim said on Telegram early on Monday.

Five people were killed and one woman injured in Ukrainian southern city of Mykolaiv as a result of a Russian drone attack, Governor Vitalii Kim said on Telegram early on Monday.

KYIV - No Russian missiles reached Ukraine on Monday after the air force put the country on high alert, reporting that a large number of bombers were taking off from Russian territory for the first time in more than two months.

"A port was attacked in Kaspiysk, Russia," Andriy Kovalenko, an official with Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, said Wednesday.

Russian glide bombs, drones and a ballistic missile smashed into cities in southern and eastern Ukraine on Monday, officials said, killing at least six civilians and injuring about 30 others.

Fires have broken out in residential buildings as a result of a Russian attack in Mykolaiv, resulting in the deaths of five people and injuries to one woman. Source: Vitalii Kim, Head of Mykolaiv Oblast Military Administration;

Five people were killed and one woman injured in Ukrainian southern city of Mykolaiv as a result of a Russian drone attack. Governor Vitalii Kim confirmed the attack to Telegram on Monday. Fires in two buildings have been extinguished and several residential buildings have been damaged,

There has been a surge in Russian attacks on residential neighbourhoods in Ukraine's most populated cities in recent weeks.

A 45-year-old woman was hospitalized with injuries. “There are fires in a multi-story apartment building and several private houses in the city, all services are on the scene,” he wrote. According to Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych,