In Sumy, a Russian drone strike killed four people, including a child, and injured nine. Over 100 residents were evacuated.
In another series of overnight drone strikes on Ukraine, a Russian Shahed UAV hit a ten-storey residential building in Sumy in the country’s northeast, killing at least four people, including a child, according to local authorities.
Nine others were injured, including an eight-year-old. The attack forced the evacuation of more than 100 residents, the regional administration reported.
Rescue efforts are ongoing, with people possibly still trapped under the rubble.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the drone attack a “horrific tragedy, a terrible Russian crime” in a post on X.
In the port city of Izmail in the Odesa region, near the Romanian border, apartment buildings, private houses and educational institutions were hit in a Russian attack.
“We heard the first explosions from the bomb shelter, which is not far away. We waited out the shelling there, and there were three very powerful explosions, we could hear them well. We knew in the shelter that a drone had hit our neighbours,” a local resident of Izmail, Oleksandra, said.
“When we saw it, it was horrible. The children were very upset … We have already taken the children away from here, and we are cleaning up.”
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia launched 81 drones at Ukraine overnight on Thursday. Some 37 were shot down, while 39 failed to reach their targets.
In the Donbas region of Ukraine, Russian forces shelled Kramatorsk, injuring 13 people, as reported by Vadim Filashkin, head of the Donetsk military regional administration, on his Telegram channel.
Two children were among the wounded, Filashkin specified. Dozens of private homes were damaged or razed in the shelling.
