At least six people were killed and 20 wounded in Russian attacks on Ukraine overnight, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Friday.

In the southern port city of Odesa, two people were killed and 10 others injured, including a woman who had been walking in a park with her children, who survived, according to regional military administration head Oleh Kiper.

In the nearby port city of Mykolaiv, regional prosecutors said that a Russian drone attack damaged three ​civilian-flagged vessels, killing two Ukrainian civilians who were on board a vessel.

Russian strikes overwhelmingly target civilian areas Image: Michael Shtekel/AP Photo/picture alliance

In the Zaporizhzhia region to the southeast, two people were killed and five more were injured in a Russian strike, according to Zelenskyy.