Russian missiles kill at least 21 in Ukraine’s Odesa region

Video of the pre-dawn attack showed the charred remains of buildings in the small town of Serhiivka, about 31 miles southwest of Odesa

A damaged residential building in Odesa on Friday (Ukrainian Emergency Service/AP)

Russian missile attacks on residential areas killed at least 21 people in a Ukrainian town near Odesa early on Friday, authorities said.

The airstrikes pierced the cautious relief expressed a day earlier after Russian forces withdrew from a Black Sea island where they could have staged an assault on the city with Ukraine’s biggest port.