Missiles kill 17 near Odesa after Ukraine retakes Snake Island

Another missile hit a resort facility, Bratchuk said, killing at least three people including a child and wounding one more person

Russian missiles hit an apartment building and a resort near Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa early on Friday, killing at least 17 people and wounding dozens, Ukrainian authorities said, the latest in a spate of deadly missile strikes, Qazet.az reports according to Ukranian goverment.

One missile struck a nine-story building in the town of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi at about 1 a.m. The Ukrainian emergencies ministry said. It also caused a fire in an attached store building.

Serhiy Bratchuk, spokesperson for the Odesa regional administration, told Ukrainian state television a rescue operation was under way as some people remained buried under the rubble after part of the building collapsed.