Odesa region

Russian strikes on energy infrastructure have left households without electricity across eight Ukrainian regions as of Friday morning, including Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Odesa, Sumy, Chernihiv and Kharkiv oblasts. Ukrainian authorities report the outages stem directly from attacks on the power grid, the latest in a campaign targeting energy facilities that has repeatedly disrupted heating and electricity supply during the war.

Russian forces struck a residential area in the south of Ukraine's Odesa region, wounding two people, according to Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform. The attack damaged the civilian sector of a populated area in Odesa oblast, adding to the ongoing pattern of Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities and border regions.

A Russian strike hit a residential area in the southern Odesa region of Ukraine, injuring two people, according to Ukrinform. The attack targeted a populated neighbourhood, adding to the pattern of strikes on civilian areas in southern Ukraine. Details on the extent of the damage or the condition of the injured have not yet been reported.

Inspections in the Odesa region of Ukraine have found that roughly one in three schools failed to comply with children's nutrition regulations. The findings, reported by the outlet Інтент, point to problems with how meals are provided to pupils in the region's schools. The details of which standards were breached and what measures will follow have not yet been made public.