(Kyiv) At least nine civilians were killed Tuesday in Russian strikes across Ukraine, six in Kupiansk, two in Kherson and one in Lviv, according to a new toll provided by Ukrainian authorities.
At least six people died in the town of Kupiansk, located in the Kharkiv region (north-east), about ten kilometers from the front line, Governor Oleg Synegoubov announced early in the evening.
“The number of deaths increased to six people,” four men and two women, Mr. Synegoubov said on Telegram. Earlier in the day, he reported three deaths in this attack using a “guided aerial bomb”.
Rescuers “continue” the search on the site, added the governor, suggesting that the toll could still rise.
In Kherson, a Russian bombing hit a trolleybus in the morning, causing the death of a police officer who was nearby and injuring two passengers, announced Roman Mrochko, the head of the military administration of this large city. south liberated in November by the Ukrainian army.
One of the injured, aged 57, succumbed to his injuries, the official added a few hours later.
In the western part of Ukraine, the governor of the Lviv region, a city nearly 1,000 kilometers from the front line, reported Tuesday morning that one person had died in a nighttime attack by Russian drones.
At 9:30 p.m. (Eastern time), an AFP journalist heard the arrival of these unmanned devices and then explosions.
Humanitarian aid warehouse hit
If “seven drones were shot down” in the region, warehouses in the city of Lviv were hit three times, Governor Maksym Kozytsky said on Telegram.
A fire broke out over an area of more than 9,000 m2he assured.
The body of a 32-year-old man was found under the rubble, the governor continued. Another man, aged 26, was hospitalized and a third, aged 68, received medical treatment at the scene, he said.
The strike “completely burned down” the warehouse of the NGO Caritas-Spes which contained 300 tonnes of relief supplies, deplored the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in a press release.
The coordinator of UN humanitarian operations in Ukraine, Denise Brown, condemned “in the strongest terms” the “attacks on humanitarian resources” which “have intensified over the year”.
Ukrainian drones shot down in Belgorod and Oryol regions
Russia for its part claimed on Wednesday to have destroyed four Ukrainian drones during the night above the regions of Belgorod, bordering Ukraine, and Orel, also in the west.
In three separate press releases published overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday, the Russian Defense Ministry reported three attacks involving four drones.
The first two were shot down by air defenses over the Belgorod and Orel regions around 9 p.m. local (2 p.m. Eastern Tuesday), a third again in the Orel region around 10:30 p.m. local (15 Eastern time), then a fourth as it flew over the Belgorod region around 11:45 p.m. local time (4:45 p.m. Eastern time), according to the ministry.
The ministry has not provided information on possible damage or casualties at this stage.
Ukrainian attacks of this type against Russian territory, whether its capital Moscow, the border areas of Ukraine or the annexed Crimean peninsula, have increased in recent months against the backdrop of a counter- Kyiv offensive started in early June.