At least 3 killed, more than 10 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine
Russian attacks across Ukraine have killed at least three people and wounded 17, according to Ukrainian regional officials. The attacks hit Donetsk, Sumy, and Odesa regions, damaging residential buildings, a hospital, and other infrastructure. The violence continues as US-led peace negotiations remain stalled.
Ukrainian regional officials say Russian attacks across Ukraine have killed at least three people and wounded 17, as US-led negotiations to end the war remain stalled.
Donetsk military administration head Vadym Filashkin said Wednesday that at least two people were killed and four wounded in Russian attacks on the region in the past 24 hours.
In a Telegram message, Filashkin said 19 Russian attacks on Donetsk damaged dozens of houses, apartment buildings, an infrastructure facility and a minibus.
Interfax news agency reported that fighting in the region forced the evacuation of "867 people, including 34 children" from the front lines in the past 24 hours.
In a separate Russian drone attack, a woman was killed in the northeastern border region of Sumy.
Sumy regional military administration head Oleh Hryhorov said on Telegram that the attacks "deliberately targeted residential buildings" caused large fires and "a 60-year-old resident of one of the buildings died of carbon monoxide poisoning."
In another development, overnight Russian attacks in southern Odesa targeted civilian infrastructure, including a hospital, damaging cardiology and surgery departments.
Regional military administration head Oleh Kiper said on Telegram that "as a result of a massive enemy attack, a hospital and residential buildings were severely damaged, and a fire broke out in the storage area." Two people were wounded, he added.
Al Jazeera correspondent Audrey Macalpine, reporting from Kyiv, said people were sheltering in the hospital basement during the attack.
Meanwhile, Ukraine launched a drone attack on an industrial facility in Perm Krai, eastern Russia, according to regional governor Dmitry Makhonin.
"Today, an enemy drone flew into an industrial area in the Perm Urban District. Workers were evacuated. There were no injuries," Makhonin wrote on Telegram.
The latest cross-attacks come as US-led peace efforts to end the war that began in February 2022, when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine, have largely stalled.
