Three members of one family were killed in a Russian drone strike in the Chernihiv region’s northern town of Pryluky, according to Ukrainian authorities.
A local first responder’s wife, daughter, and one-year-old grandson were killed in the attack, according to Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko on Thursday morning.
When Russia launched six drones into the town overnight, the family was one of five killed, according to regional governor Viacheslav Chaus.
He claimed that six more people had been taken to the hospital.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, blasted the attacks and accused Moscow of “constantly trying to buy time for itself by killing.”
When it doesn’t feel the world’s pressure and condemnation are strong enough, it kills again, he wrote on X.
According to Zelenskyy, Russia targeted the Donetsk, Kharkiv, Odesa, Sumy, Chernihiv, Dnipro, and Kherson regions with 103 drones and one ballistic missile over the course of one night.
“This is yet another reason to put maximum pressure on one another.” We demand that the United States, Europe, and everyone else in the world take action to truly change these terrible circumstances, he urged.
According to Klymenko, 18 people were hurt in the northeastern city of Kharkiv, including four children.
Anastasiia Meleshchenk, a resident, reported to the Reuters news agency that her child managed to escape into the hallway after the overnight strike had entered her neighbor’s apartment.
After the previous attack, she claimed that the workers in my apartment had just finished their repairs.
Russia did not respond right away.
Later on Thursday, Ukrainian authorities reported that two people had died as a result of a Russian attack that occurred the day before in the Poltava region, eastern Ukraine.
Senior regional official Volodymyr Kohut wrote on Telegram that “sadly, doctors failed to save the lives of two people who were seriously injured as a result of an enemy attack on the training ground.”
Ukraine’s military claimed that it fired missile systems at Bryansk regional missile systems, which it claimed were preparing to attack Ukraine.
Russia promises to respond.
The attacks come after Ukraine used 117 unmanned aerial vehicles launched from containers close to the targets in a campaign known as “Spider’s Web” to attack four of Russia’s military airfields in Siberia and the far north in a strike.
Seven people were also killed when Russia accused it of bombing rail bridges in the south of the nation.
Russian military will act as and when necessary, according to Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin, on Thursday.
Sergei Ryabkov, the deputy foreign minister of Russia, stated on Thursday that the facilities’ warplanes were infected and would be repaired.
Up to 20 warplanes were hit, according to two US officials who spoke to Reuters, and about 10 were destroyed.
Despite the two conflicting parties holding direct talks in Turkiye to end the conflict, fighting and aerial attacks have recently gotten worse and worse.
According to John Hendren, a reporter from Kyiv, the US Embassy has warned Ukrainian citizens that significant strikes are on the horizon.
Source: Aljazeera
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