UPDATE 2 - 8 killed, 44 injured in overnight Russian attacks in northern, eastern Ukraine, claim officials

ADDS STATEMENT BY UKRAINIAN PROSECUTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE

By Burc Eruygur

ISTANBUL (AA) – At least eight people were killed and 44 others injured in overnight Russian attacks in northern and eastern Ukraine, officials said in separate statements on Sunday.

Mykola Oleshchuk, the commander of Ukrainian Air Force, claimed on Telegram that Russia carried out missile attacks overnight on the border regions of Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Donetsk.

The missiles were launched from Russia’s Voronezh and Rostov regions, he claimed, adding that most of the missiles failed to reach their planned targets.

He said eight of nine Russian drones were also intercepted over the southern Mykolaiv region.

On Telegram, Mykolaiv Governor Vitaliy Kim reported that 15 residential and commercial buildings were damaged by debris from drones that were shot down.

Donetsk Governor Vadym Filashkin said seven people were killed and 15 injured in the region in the Russian attack that also damaged civilian infrastructure in the region's Pokrovsk, Kramatorsk and Bakhmut districts.

Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Heorhii Tykhyi claimed in a statement on X that the attack targeted a hotel in Kramatorsk and injured an unspecified number of foreign journalists.

He went on to call on the global community to condemn such attacks.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office announced that it launched an investigation into the attack, confirming that two journalists were injured and another is still trapped under the rubble of the damaged hotel.

The Sumy Regional Military Administration issued a separate statement on Telegram, saying one person was killed and 16 others were injured in a missile strike in the region.

Kharkiv Governor Oleh Synyehubov said on Telegram that 13 people were injured in Kharkiv and Chuhuiv cities.

Local authorities in the Chernihiv region have not yet reported any casualties or damages.

Russian authorities have not yet commented on the Ukrainian officials' claims.