(Kyiv) Two women died and a man was injured in Russian shelling Thursday morning in Nikopol, a city in southern Ukraine, regional authorities announced, after a new series of air attacks against several regions.
“The Russian army bombarded Nikopol with heavy artillery in the morning,” the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Serguii Lyssak, said on Telegram.
The strikes caused the deaths of two women, aged 46 and 60, and an 86-year-old man was injured, he added, specifying that seven buildings had been damaged.
His message was accompanied by photos, including a house with gutted walls.
In Russia, two people were injured by Ukrainian bombings on a village in the Bryansk region, bordering Ukraine.
Animals from a herd also died or were injured in the attack and a vehicle was “damaged,” regional governor Alexandre Bogomaz added on Telegram.
A man was also killed in Ukrainian bombings in the Donetsk region, partially under Russian control since 2014, in eastern Ukraine, local occupation authorities announced.
Earlier, Ukraine said it had suffered a new Russian night attack, from 35 Iranian-made Shahed drones, of which 34 were shot down.
Three people were killed and five others injured in Russian strikes targeting mining companies in the eastern Ukrainian city of Toretsk, the Interior Minister announced.
“The Russians bombed Toretsk mines in the Donetsk region, killing three civilians and injuring five others,” Igor Klymenko said on Telegram.
According to him, the bombing of one of the mines in this industrial city in Donbas left one dead and two injured. That of another caused the death of two people while three others were injured.
“There were 32 miners underground, they were brought to the surface,” said Klymenko, adding that one of the companies was without electricity and that administrative buildings and equipment were damaged in the process. other.
The attacks took place “in waves” during the night and came from annexed Crimea, the eastern shore of the Sea of Azov, as well as from Kursk, a Russian city close to the northern border of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Air Force said on Telegram.
The head of the military administration of the Kyiv region, Ruslan Kravchenko, reported a fire, quickly extinguished, caused in a warehouse by one of these raids.
The State Emergency Service released a video showing the affected site, showing charred debris and rescuers working at the scene.
Russia launches drone and missile attacks against Ukraine almost every night.
Kyiv accuses the Kremlin of seeking to terrorize the civilian population and destroy its energy infrastructure to plunge the population into darkness and cold, like the previous winter.
Millions of people were then left without power, something the Ukrainian authorities want to avoid at all costs this year.
Ukraine has since reinforced its air defense systems with Western weapons which make it possible to shoot down most of the explosive drones or missiles sent by Russia.
Residential building in Kyiv hit by Russian drone
A residential building in Kyiv was hit Thursday evening by an explosive drone during a new Russian night attack, Ukrainian authorities said, reporting at least one injured.
This is the first incident of this kind in months in the Ukrainian capital. While Kyiv is regularly targeted by Russian drone and missile attacks, most of them are shot down by air defense.
The air alarm was sounded late in the evening in Kyiv. Shortly after, local residents heard loud explosions. The town hall initially announced that air defense was operating in the city calling on residents to stay in shelters.
“A residential building in Kyiv hit by a Shahed”, an Iranian-made drone regularly used by Moscow for these attacks against its neighbor, wrote the head of the presidential administration Andriï Iermak on Telegram.
The incident occurred in the Solomiansky district in the southwest of the capital, reporting “flames on the upper floors” of the building, Mayor Vitali Klitschko added on Telegram.
A man was hospitalized in this neighborhood, he added without giving further details.
The city’s military administration published photos on Telegram of apartments with bay windows blown out by explosions.
She said it was not a drone strike but fragments from a downed drone.
Shortly after, Mr. Klitschko announced that debris from another drone shot down by air defense had fallen on a private house in the Darnytsky district in the east of the city.
The Ukrainian Air Force reported that several groups of drones were advancing across the country towards various regions in the center, west and south of the country.