Three dead in recent Russian attacks on Ukraine
Russian airstrikes killed three people in Ukraine on Thursday and wounded four in Kiev after the capital came under fire for the third straight day, Ukrainian authorities said.
An 85-year-old woman and a man in his 40s were killed in southern Ukraine and another 60-year-old in the north, hours after an overnight drone strike in the Kiev area. “Tonight Russian terrorists launched another massive attack,” said Ruslan Kravchenko, governor of the Kyiv region. British Ambassador Melinda Simmons wrote on Twitter: “Quite an awkward night.”
Russian attacks and fighting in Ukraine continued unabated this week, while NATO leaders discussed security threats emanating from Moscow and offered new military aid packages to Ukraine at a summit in Lithuania.
Ukraine’s air defenses shot down all 20 drones fired at the capital and the surrounding region overnight, as well as two Kalibr missiles fired at other parts of the country, the air force said.
According to the Interior Ministry, two people suffered smoke inhalation and two others were injured by shrapnel in fires caused by falling debris in Kiev.
In addition, a rocket and several drones were shot down in the Mykolaiv region of southern Ukraine, where falling debris damaged several buildings, according to the office of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The 85-year-old woman was killed when Russian troops shelled the village of Mykilske in the southern Kherson region around noon, regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin said.
The dead man, in his 40s, was killed in another shell attack on the city of Orikhiv in the southern Zaporizhia region, according to Governor Yuriy Malashko.
The third person killed by Russian airstrikes was a 60-year-old resident of the village of Popivka in the northern Sumy region, the Prosecutor General’s Office said.
Russia, which began the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, has not commented on the latest attacks.