BREAKING: Multiple Explosions Reported In Odesa

Update at 11:47pm: In Odesa and the region, more explosions are heard.

Update at 11:02pm: In Odesa, a shopping center is on fire due to shelling.

Update at 10:54pm: Operational command "Pivden" confirms a missile attack on Odesa.

Update at 10:48pm:  At least 7 explosions were reported in Odesa tonight.

BREAKING: Odesa, Ukraine - We're learning at this hour multiple explosions are reported in Odesa, Ukraine tonight,

Unknown at this time if anything was hit or shot down.

Stay tuned for the latest.

BREAKING: Russia Attacks Odesa With Multiple Explosions

Update at 2:15am: More explosions  reported in Odesa.

Update at 12:05am: More explosions reported in Odesa.

Update at 12:03am: More explosions reported in Mykolaiv.

Update at 11:55pm: Explosions reported in Zaporizhzhia.

Update at 10:20pm: Explosions reported in Mykolaiv.

Update at 10:09pm: Russians dropped an air bomb on a school in Bilohorodka, Luhansk region, the Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration, Serhii Haidai, reports.

According to him, there were about 90 people in the school, and about 30 citizens were rescued from the rubble. This building was the last refuge of people in the settlement.

Update at 9:53pm:  In the temporarily occupied Kherson region, forest fires are raging - the Russians forbid putting them out, according to the head of the Chulakivka community, Oleksandr Musiienko.

According to him, the fire is spreading near the villages of Heroiske and Ivanivka.

Update at 6:32pm: During today's evacuation of civilians from 'Azovstal', 3 Ukrainian defenders were killed by Russian shelling, 6 more were injured, – the command of the Azov regiment reported in a commentary to 'Ukrainska Pravda' edition.

Update at 6:07pm: On the territory of the entire Zaporizhzhia region, an extended curfew is introduced - from 19:00 on May 8 to 05:00 on May 10.

This applies even to the temporarily occupied territories of the region, according to Enerhodar Mayor Dmytro Orlov.

Update at 5:57pm: Odesa was attacked by the Russian strategic aircraft. Four

BREAKING: Explosions Heard In Odesa

Update at 9:20pm: Odesa region under air raid siren/alert.

Update at 9:16pm: Rocket strike in Odesa: a 15-year-old boy was killed; a minor girl was hospitalized - the head of the press center of the Security and Defense Forces of the South Natalia Humeniuk

A total of five people were in the building where the rocket hit.

Update at 8:29pm: The head of the Odesa Regional State Administration, Maksym Marchenko, said that as a result of the missile strike in the Odesa region, there were dead and wounded. 

According to preliminary data, a 13-year-old child died, and a 17-year-old girl was seriously injured.

Update at 7:41pm: As a result of a missile attack on Odesa, there are wounded and dead, - said the head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration Maxim Marchenko.

Update at 7:23pm: There are hits in the city's infrastructure, in particular one of the religious buildings was damaged.

Information about the victims is being clarified.

BREAKING: Odesa, Ukraine - We're learning of explosions this evening in the port city of Odesa, Ukraine.

Unknown if anything was hit or air defenses working.

Stay tuned for updates.

BREAKING: Explosions Heard In Odesa

Update at 7:15pm: Russia may declare full mobilization if it fails to achieve its goals in eastern Ukraine in the near future, Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanik said.

Update at 7:11pm: The head of the Luhansk Regional Мilitary Administration, Sergei Gaidai, said in a televised marathon that Russian troops were preparing to launch a powerful strike against the region on May 9.

Update at 7:05pm: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Russian troops are launching missile and bomb strikes and shelling civilian infrastructure and residential areas in Zaporizhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kharkiv Regions.

Ukrainian military resumed control over the settlements of Verkhnyaya Roganka, Rus'ka Lozova, Slobodskoye and Prilesnoye in the Kharkiv region, - the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Update at 6:44pm: The missile attack damaged the runway of Odessa airport. It is impossible to use it further, Nataliya Gumenyuk, spokeswoman for the security and defence forces in the south, said.

BREAKING: Odesa, Ukraine - We're learning that explosions have been heard this evening in Odesa, Ukraine.

Unknown if anything was hit or shot down by air defense.

Stay tuned for more information.

BREAKING: Explosions Strikes Odesa

Update at 11:18pm:  Explosions reported in Kherson.

Update at 11:04pm: Powerful explosions reported in Kharkiv.

Update at 10:38pm: Strike reported in Pavlograd, Dnipropetrovsk region.

Update at 10:33pm: Massive explosions reported in Mykolaiv, Kyiv under air raid alert.

Governor: 3 civilians killed in Chuhuyev and Derhachi, Kharkiv Oblast.

Six people were injured in the region as a result of Russian shelling on April 23, Kharkiv Oblast Governor Oleh Synehubov said.

Update at 10:27pm: More explosions reported tonight in Odesa and Mykolaiv.

Update at 6: 06pm: A Russian strike killed at least five people, including a baby, and wounded 18 others in Ukraine's Black Sea city of Odessa on Saturday, Kyiv said, warning the toll would likely rise.

Update at 4:59pm: Air Command ""Pivden"" (South): The Ukrainian military destroyed two Russian cruise missiles that hit Odesa and two drones. However, two rockets hit a military facility and two residential buildings.

BREAKING: Odesa, Ukraine - We're learning that there have been explosions in the port city of Odesa, Ukraine.

There were four explosions.

One of the rockets flew into a residential complex, one - into an infrastructure facility. Several apartments were badly damaged, windows were blown out in the rest.

No information about victims yet.