Ukraine says 10 injured in Russian missile strikes over Donetsk region

By Burc Eruygur

ISTANBUL (AA) - Ukraine on Sunday said 10 people were injured in the city of Myrnohrad in the country’s eastern Donetsk region amid an overnight Russian missile strikes.

Yurii Tretiak, the acting head of the Myrnohrad City Military Administration, told Ukraine’s public broadcaster Suspilne that 10 people were injured in the city due to three missiles that damaged multi-story buildings.

Meanwhile, Donetsk Governor Vadym Filashkin in a Telegram statement specified that Russian forces fired three S-300 missiles at Myrnohrad.

Filashkin’s comments came as the Ukrainian Air Force claimed that Russia hit the country’s eastern Kharkiv and Donetsk regions by launching four S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles and 39 attack drones.

The statement said 35 of the drones launched were shot down over the Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy, Odesa, Kherson, Khmelnytskyi, Vinnytsia, Kyiv, and Zhytomyr regions.

Kharkiv Governor Oleh Synyehubov said a recreation camp was shelled in the city of Bohodukhiv overnight, causing a minibus to catch fire and damaging a farm building.

In the Kyiv region, no hits were recorded on residential or critical infrastructure, Governor Ruslan Kravchenko said, while adding that windows in one private house were damaged.

Odesa Governor Oleh Kiper said a drone hit an industrial facility, damaging the building and causing a fire that was later extinguished.

Russian authorities have yet to comment on the reports.