In a drone attack on an apartment complex in Sumy, northeast Ukraine, at least four people have been killed and nine have been injured, including a young person.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, claimed on Thursday morning that Sumy was targeted by an Iranian-shelen drone, while his military claimed 81 drones were launched overnight, causing damage to homes and businesses.
“A terrible tragedy, a terrible Russian crime. Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram that it is crucial that the world does not pause and demand that Russia be held accountable for this terror.
The military said 37 of the drones were shot down, including in Sumy and near the capital, Kyiv, and 39 others did not reach their targets, without elaborating on what happened to the five remaining drones.
In addition, the attack damaged more than 20 cars and five apartments, according to the local authorities.
In front of a crane and piles of rubble, Sumy Governor Volodymyr Artyukh posted a video on Telegram. He claimed that emergency services were removing residents from the rubble.
A woman and her child were killed in a Ukrainian drone attack in western Russia following the attack on Sumy.
Vyacheslav Gladkov, the governor of Russia’s Belgorod border region, said on social media another child and his father were injured in the attack.
Additionally, according to the Russian Defense Minister, Moscow shot down 104 Ukrainian drones over Kursk and Bryansk.
Elsewhere, in the southern Ukrainian region of Odesa, officials said Russian drones targeted the port town of Izmail, where a grain warehouse, a hospital and two residences were damaged.
The ministry announced on Wednesday that it was continuing its progress in the Donetsk village of Novoyelizavetivka.
Source: Aljazeera
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