In a series of aggressive strikes across northern, eastern, and southern Ukraine, Russian forces killed at least four people and injured 37 others, according to Ukrainian military and local authorities on Sunday.
The overnight assaults targeted several frontline regions, including Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Donetsk, as reported by Ukraine’s air force via the Telegram messaging app. The attacks are part of Russia’s ongoing campaign against Ukrainian border regions. Ukrainian officials have stated that their recent incursion into Russia’s Kursk region aimed to disrupt Moscow’s ability to launch such strikes.
“Most of the missiles did not reach their targets,” the air force reported, highlighting that Russia launched various missiles, including an Iskander-M ballistic missile, an Iskander-K cruise missile, and six guided air missiles. The air force did not specify how many of these were intercepted.
One of the attacks struck the northern region of Sumy, resulting in one fatality and at least 16 injuries, including three children, according to local authorities. The eastern region of Kharkiv also suffered casualties, with 13 people, including a 4-year-old child, wounded in the strikes. Oleh Sinehubov, the governor of Kharkiv, reported the damages, while Kharkiv city’s mayor, Ihor Terekhov, noted that a gas pipeline was damaged, along with the destruction of at least two houses and damage to ten others.
In the southern region of Mykolaiv, Ukraine’s air defense systems successfully destroyed eight of the nine attack drones launched by Russia. However, the attacks persisted throughout the day in Kherson, where one person was killed, and six others were injured, according to Roman Mrochko, head of Kherson city’s military administration.
Later on Sunday, an aerial bomb attack struck a residential neighborhood in the Svesa village of Sumy, killing two people and injuring two more, as confirmed by regional prosecutors.
These reports have not been independently verified by Reuters, and there has been no immediate comment from Russia. Both Russia and Ukraine have consistently denied targeting civilians since the onset of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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