Russian drone strike on Ukrainian apartment block kills four and injures nine
Russian drone strike on Ukrainian apartment block kills four and injures nine
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A Russian drone strike tore through an apartment building in north-eastern Ukraine, killing four people and wounding nine others including a child, officials said. The Shahed drone hit the residential block in Sumy just after 1am on Thursday, blasting a hole through the wall and shattering windows, according to the regional administration.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the attack as "a terrible tragedy, a terrible Russian crime". The strike comes as the war approaches its fourth year next month, with UN figures showing more than 10,000 Ukrainian civilians killed since the conflict began.
Civilians have also endured hardship caused by Russian attacks on the power grid that have denied them heating and running water. Many have been evacuated from areas along the roughly 600-mile front line where Ukrainian defences are straining to hold the bigger Russian army at bay.
Russia launched more than 80 drones at Ukraine overnight, the air force reported, in what are common night-time barrages. Most of the drones were shot down or stopped by electronic 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 said. In the Poltava region of central Ukraine, emergency services pulled four people from under rubble and almost 120 others were evacuated after a Shahed drone destroyed a stable, according to authorities. There was no immediate information on whether any horses were harmed.
