UPDATES WITH MORE STRIKES, LATEST CASUALTIES; REVISES HEADLINE, LEDE
By Burc Eruygur
ISTANBUL (AA) - At least six people were killed and 50 injured in overnight Russian airstrikes in three cities in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy and Donetsk regions, local officials said Wednesday.
“A woman injured in the attack on Kryvyi Rih died in the hospital at night. A total of four people died. 43 people were injured,” Dnipropetrovsk Governor Serhiy Lysak said in a statement on Telegram early Wednesday.
Lysak said that 12 children were among the injured and that 20 of the injured people remained in medical facilities.
“In the city, more than two dozen high-rise buildings, two kindergartens and schools each, an enterprise, an administrative building, a store, and a warehouse were damaged,” the governor added.
Commenting on the strike, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on X that rescue efforts in Kryvyi Rih have been completed.
“Every day our cities and villages are subjected to such attacks. Every day, Ukraine loses people to Russian evil. And there can be no pause in support for a day, a week—let alone months—when it comes to protecting lives and simply saving people from terror,” he added.
Meanwhile, Donetsk Governor Vadym Filashkin said on Telegram that two people were killed and five were injured in a missile strike in the city of Myrnohrad.
In the city of Sumy, a drone attack hit a five-story building, injuring at least eight people, according to the Sumy Regional Military Administration on Telegram.
The statement further said 10 people were rescued from the rubble and that a search and rescue operation continued in the area.
The Russia-Ukraine war, which entered its third year at the end of last month, has claimed the lives of at least 10,500 civilians and injured more than 19,800, according to the latest UN figures.