Russia has attacked port infrastructure in Ukraine’s southern Odesa region with drones in overnight strikes that also damaged residential buildings and a hospital and left two people wounded, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday.
Regional Governor Oleh Kiper, writing on Telegram, said the attack in the south of the Odesa region destroyed the admissions department of a hospital there, and badly damaged other parts of the facility.
Firefighters work at a site of a Russian drone strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Odesa region, Ukraine in this handout picture released on 29th April, 2026. PICTURE: Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Odesa region/Handout via Reuters
At the time of the attack, medical staff and patients were in a shelter, and they were later moved to another facility, he said.
Regional prosecutors said port infrastructure facilities came under attack, without giving details.
Emergency services said two people were hurt in fires in a residential area. They posted pictures of buildings engulfed by fire and firefighters battling the blazes.
Kiper added that a fire was also recorded at the Danube Biosphere Reserve, a nature reserve in the region.
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The Odesa region, which houses major Ukrainian seaports and river ports on the Danube, has been a repeated target of Russian attacks during Moscow’s more than four-year-old war.
Ukraine’s air force said Russia had launched 171 drones at the country since Monday evening. The air defence units downed or neutralised 154 drones, it added.
One person was killed and two others wounded in a separate drone and missile attack in the northeastern Sumy region, which caused large-scale fires in a residential area, local officials said.
Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he discussed a possible ceasefire in the four-year war in Ukraine in a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
He spoke after the Kremlin reported the two leaders discussed a temporary Ukraine ceasefire to mark the anniversary of the end of World War II next month.
“We had a good talk, I’ve known him a long time,” said Trump. The two leaders had their last publicly reported phone call on 9th March, although Trump has indicated they speak regularly.
Trump, speaking to reporters as he met with astronauts from the Artemis II mission in the Oval Office, said he suggested “a little bit of a ceasefire” in the war in Ukraine in his phone call with the Russian leader.
“And I think he might do that,” Trump said, then asked reporters whether Putin had already announced a ceasefire.
Putin announced a similar truce last year that lasted three days but was not agreed with Kyiv.
Trump has a history of making positive comments about Putin and sharply criticising Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for not agreeing to make a deal with Russia to end the war.
Help with Iran’s uranium
Trump said Putin offered to help on the issue of Iran’s enriched uranium, a key obstacle to a deal to end the Iran war, but “I said I’d much rather have you be involved with ending the war with Ukraine.”
“I said, before you help me, I want to end your war,” said Trump.
Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov did not say what proposals Putin had made on Iran. Moscow has previously offered to take enriched uranium out of the country.
Ushakov told reporters Putin had proposed the temporary ceasefire in Ukraine for celebrations on 9th May to mark the Soviet Union’s part in the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. He said Trump reacted positively.
Ushakov added that Trump, in a friendly and businesslike conversation lasting over one-and-a-half hours, had said he believed a deal to end the Ukraine war was close.
– Additional reporting by VLADIMIR SOLDATKIN