Six people were killed in Russian airstrikes on the frontline town of Kupiansk in northeastern Ukraine on Tuesday, according to local officials. This increased pressure on the area where Moscow’s soldiers have been on the offensive.
Russian strikes in Ukraine: Nine persons were killed in Ukraine that day, according to the most recent death toll from Kupiansk.
The strike in Kharkiv’s northeastern district came after a swarm of attack drones wrecked warehouses and killed one person overnight in Lviv in the west.
“There are now six people confirmed dead. A guided aerial bomb strike by the enemy claimed the lives of four men and two women in Kupiansk, according to the regional governor Oleg Synegubov.
In a statement, he added, “Emergency services are still at the explosion scene.”
Early on in the invasion that began in February 2022, Russian soldiers took large portions of the Kharkiv region, but Ukrainian forces have subsequently beaten them back.
According to Roman Mrochko, administration chief for the significant southern city retaken from the Russians last November, two passengers were injured and a policeman died in the southern town of Kherson when a trolleybus struck him.
A 57-year-old guy who was one of the injured eventually passed away from his wounds.
One person was killed during a Russian drone assault in the night, according to the governor of the western Lviv area, which is close to Poland and 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) from the front lines.
A nearby AFP reporter had heard explosions after the drones.
Although Lviv warehouses were struck and a fire started, seven of the drones were shot down, according to governor Maksym Kozytsky on Telegram.
While a 26-year-old was receiving medical care, the body of a 32-year-old man was discovered in the wreckage of a burned-out structure. The governor noted that a 68-year-old received medical attention on the spot.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that a warehouse for the non-governmental organisation Caritas-Spes that had 300 tonnes of emergency goods was “totally burnt-out.”
Denise Brown, the coordinator for OCHA in Ukraine, denounced the Russian attack.
Attacks on humanitarian resources have gotten worse over the course of the year, which has had an impact on those who experience the terrible effects of the war.
Out of the 30 Russian drones that were launched throughout the night, 27 Iranian-made Shahed drones, according to the Ukrainian army, were shot down.