At least eight people were killed and 18 injured as a result of the Russian bombing of the port city of Odessa in southern Ukraine on Saturday, according to a new report released by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

“There are currently eight dead and 18 to 20 injured,” Zelenskiy said at a press conference in the country’s capital, Kiev. said.

According to Zelensky, “seven missiles struck Odessa”, one of which “hit a residential building” and “two hit by the Ukrainian air defense system”.

Earlier, Andrii Yermak, the chief of staff of the Presidency of Ukraine, reported via Telegram that there were about five dead.

“Odessa: 5 Ukrainians killed and 18 injured. And this is what we have found so far,” Yermak said.

“The number is probably higher,” he added, adding that among the dead was a “three-month-old baby.”

On Facebook, the Ukrainian Air Force highlighted that Russian forces have fired a series of Tu-95 bomber missiles over the Caspian Sea.

Two missiles hit a military facility and two residential buildings. The same source reported that the other two were destroyed by the air defense system.

“The sole purpose of the Russian missile attacks on Odessa is terrorism,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on his Twitter account.

Kuleba called for the building of “a wall between civilization and the barbarians attacking peaceful cities with missiles”.