Chinese-owned ship among two struck by Russian drones in Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on social media that a Russian drone had hit a vessel owned by China. Russia had attacked the nearby Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa with drones overnight, Ukrainian officials said.

A source told Reuters that the Deyang was without cargo at the time of the attack early on Monday, heading to load iron ore concentrate in Ukraine's Pivdennyi port in the Odesa region.

The vessel did not sustain significant damage, there were no casualties and the fire caused by the strike was extinguished by the crew, the source added.

Russia has repeatedly targeted maritime export routes more than four years after its invasion of Ukraine, striking ports vital to foreign trade and the wartime economy.

(Reporting by Yuliia Dysa, Anna Pruchnicka; Editing by Alex Richardson)