UPDATE - Ukraine says 5 killed due to Russian airstrikes in Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv regions

UPDATES WITH STATEMENT BY UKRAINE'S AIR FORCE

By Burc Eruygur

ISTANBUL (AA) - Ukraine reported on Tuesday that at least five people were killed in overnight Russian airstrikes in the Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions.

“Fourteen people were injured in a missile attack on Kryvyi Rih, with ten hospitalized. Unfortunately, the attack also claimed the life of a 39-year-old man,” Dnipropetrovsk Governor Serhiy Lysak stated on Telegram.

Lysak added that firefighters extinguished a fire caused by the attack, which damaged 11 apartment buildings, a clinic, a school, and an administrative building in the city.

In Kharkiv, Governor Oleh Synyehubov reported that an airstrike in the Osnovianskyi district destroyed a house, damaged nearly 20 private homes, and resulted in four fatalities and two injuries.

Synyehubov noted that the Shevchenkivskyi district airstrike targeted the Derzhprom building, a Soviet-era skyscraper built in 1928. The attack partially damaged the building’s third floor and injured nine people.

“A Russian airstrike severely damaged the Derzhprom in Kharkiv, one of the world's most famous constructivist buildings under provisional enhanced UNESCO protection,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on X.

He called for Russia’s isolation and increased pressure on Moscow, emphasizing that "appeasement never brings peace" but rather "feeds the aggressor's appetite."

Later, Ukraine's Air Force claimed in a statement that the city of Kryvyi Rih was hit by an Iskander missile launched from the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow illegally annexed in 2014.

It further claimed that the country's air defenses shot down 26 out of 48 drones launched at Ukraine overnight.

Russian authorities have not yet commented on the attacks or the claims.