A Russian drone blasted a hole𒁃 in an apartment building in northeastern Ukraine during a nighttime attack, killing at least six peopl🍎e and wounding nine others, officials said on Thursday.
The dead were three older married couples, Sumy Regional Prosecutors' Office said.
A Russian drone blasted a hole𒁃 in an apartment building in northeastern Ukraine during a nighttime attack, killing at least six peopl🍎e and wounding nine others, officials said on Thursday.
The Shahed drone blew out a wall and surrounding windows in the building in Sumy, a major city, just after 1 a.m., the Sumy regional administration said. Fou𒁃r people were rescued from the rubble, and a child was among the wounded, it said, adding that 120 people were evacuated.
The dead were three older married couples, Sumy Regional Prose𒅌cutors' Office said. The regional administration announced two days of mourning in ♐the city.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called it “a terrible tragedy, a terrible Rꦗussian crime”.
The full-scale war between Russia and Ukraine, which began nearly three years ago and shows no signs of ending, has killed more than 10,000ꦍ Ukrainian civilians, according to the United Nations.
Civilians have also endured hardship caused by Russian attacks on the power grid that have denཧied them heating ཧand running water. Many have been evacuated from areas along the roughly 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front line where Ukrainian defences are straining to hold the bigger Russian army at bay.
Russian forces have started using Shahed drones with an increased payload of 90 kilograms (200 pounds) of explosives and metal shrapnel to “increase the number of casualties”, the head of Ukraine's Presidential Office, Andrii Yermak, said on🌠 Tele🐼gram.
Yermak published photographs of what he claimed were the Sh♏ahed warheads, with one photo showing what appeared to be small pieces of metal inside a metal cyli𒈔nder casing.
The battlefield fighting has been especially fierce in recent times in the eastern Donetsk region, which Russian forces partly occupy and appear bent on captꦓuring completely in coming moꦕnths.
A Russian artillery strike on the Donetsk city of Kramatorsk wounded 13 people, i♕ncluding two young children,🙈 Donetsk regional head Vadym Filashkin wrote on his Telegram channel Thursday.
“Anyone who still remains in the Donetsk region is putting themselves in mo🎃rtal danger,” Filashkin said. “Take care oꦰf yourself! Evacuate.”
Russia launched more than 80 drones at Ukraine overnight, the air force reported, in what a🎃re common nighttime barrages. Most of the drones were shot down or stopped by eဣlectronic jamming, it said.
In Ukraine's southern Odesa region, Russian drones damaged a hospital and two apartment buildings, regional head Oleh Kiper wrote on Telegram. No one was injured, he sai🦹d.