A Ukrainian port was hit by a Russian air attack in the Odesa region, Ukrainian officials said. Video released by Ukraine’s emergency services showed firefighters tackling dramatic flames after shipping containers were set on fire in the Black Sea port.

The country’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said on Wednesday he had spoken to US negotiators about an Easter ceasefire but Russian forces had fired more than 700 drones – many of them Iranian-designed Shaheds – targeting parts of western and central Ukraine in a rare daytime attack