A 12-year-old was among those killed as Russian missile and drone attacks hit Ukrainian cities of Kyiv, Odesa and Dnipro.
Russian missile and drone strikes killed at least 13 people and injured several others across Ukraine in overnight attacks, local authorities said Thursday.
In the capital Kyiv, a 12-year-old child and three others were killed in a Russian strike, while seven people died in the southern port city of Odesa, officials said.
At least 18 people were injured in Kyiv, military administrator Tymur Tkachenko said, with local media reporting multiple explosions as missiles struck the city in several waves.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said emergency teams had rescued a mother and child from a building in a central district of the city, where the ground floor was badly damaged.
In Dnipro, a missile strike injured at least 27 people and set residential buildings on fire, regional authorities said. Five of the injured were in critical condition.
Blasts reported from across districts
Explosions were reported across multiple districts, with damage to residential and commercial buildings. The full extent of the damage and casualties remained unclear.
Air raid alerts were issued across several regions as attacks continued into the early morning.
On Wednesday evening, a Russian drone strike hit an apartment block in Odesa, killing at least one person and injuring six.
Ukraine’s air force said it downed or neutralized 31 Russian missiles and 636 drones in attacks across the country.
“During this period, the enemy launched two waves of combined attacks on Ukrainian territory, using ground-based and air-launched missiles, as well as attack drones,” the air force said in a statement on Telegram.
Ukraine’s top diplomatic priority is securing allies’ help to buy and build more air defense systems, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday after meeting European allies in Germany.
“Every day we need air defense missiles — every day Russia continues its strikes,” Zelenskyy said in a post on the Telegram messaging app.
Edited by: Louis Oelofse
DW News
