Russian drones have attacked Ukraine's main Black Sea port in Odesa and a railway in the Zaporizhzhia region, killing a train driver, according to Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Oleksii Kuleba.

The overnight attacks damaged the port's infrastructure, including berths, warehouses, railway infrastructure and port operators' facilities, Kuleba said in a statement on X on Wednesday.

The attack on a sorting yard at the Zaporizhzhia-Live station killed an assistant train driver, while the main driver was injured and hospitalized.

Kuleba described the strikes as "another proof of terrorism, Russia is at war against peaceful people, against those who were simply doing their job and keeping the country moving."

Russia also launched drones and missiles near the disused Chornobyl nuclear plant, elevating the risk of a significant accident, according to Ukraine's top state prosecutor.

Ukraine's army said it downed 189 out of 215 Russian drones overnight, with 24 drones hitting 13 locations and many still in the airspace.

Russia's Defence Ministry reported that 155 Ukrainian drones were destroyed overnight.

In Russia, a Ukrainian drone attack killed two people in the central city of Syzran, home to a top air force school. A four-storey apartment building partially collapsed.

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Kyiv has asked Turkiye to host a meeting between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Ankara's response is unclear.

Source: www.aljazeera.com