Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine

One person was killed and 14 more were injured in overnight Russian drone strikes on the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa, local authorities said on Friday morning.

According to the Odesa Regional Prosecutor’s Office, Russia attacked the city with at least 10 drones at around 1am local time on Friday, targeting “civilian infrastructure”.

The State Emergency Service of Ukraine said the attack had caused a series of “large-scale” fires, with 600 people evacuated from a 23-storey building after it caught fire and one four-storey apartment block “completely engulfed in flames”.

Among the 14 injured in the attack were three firefighters, who were wounded when part of the four-storey building collapsed during rescue operations, but the State Emergency Service said they were currently in a stable condition in hospital.

Ukrainian Railways said that key infrastructure at the city’s railway station had been damaged in the attack, but that there were no casualties and that trains continued to run according to schedule.

Investigators were drawing up a “full list of destruction and damage” caused in the attack as part of a pre-trial investigation into war crimes by the Russian military, the Regional Prosecutor’s Office said.

A further four people, including two girls aged 12 and 17, were injured in an overnight Russian drone attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, the State Emergency Service said, as well as one more in the central city of Nikopol.

Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia had launched 86 drones at Ukraine overnight, of which air defences managed to intercept 70. Strikes on eight locations across the country were recorded, it said, with debris from downed drones falling in a further 11 places.

On Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited a residential building in Kyiv that was partially destroyed in a Russian combined missile and drone attack on the capital that killed 28 people earlier this week.

“It was deliberate terror, the same thing Russia’s army under Putin has done everywhere, from Chechnya to Syria,” Zelensky said, calling the attack “a reminder to the world that Russia spurns a ceasefire and chooses to kill”.