A Russian drone blasted a hole in an apartment building in northeastern Ukraine during a nighttime attack, killing at least four people and injuring nine others, officials said Thursday.
The Shahed drone blew out a wall and surrounding windows in the apartment block in Sumy, a major city, just after 1 a. A child was among the injured, it said. The war between Russia and Ukraine, which enters its fourth year next month and shows no signs of ending, has killed more than 10, Ukrainian civilians, according to the United Nations.
Civilians have also endured hardship caused by Russian attacks on the power grid that have denied them heating and running water. Many have been evacuated from areas along the roughly 1,kilometer mile front line where Ukrainian defenses are straining to hold the bigger Russian army at bay. Russia launched more than 80 drones at Ukraine overnight, the air force reported, in what are common nighttime barrages. Most of the drones were shot down or stopped by electronic jamming, it said.
No one was injured, he said. In the Poltava region of central Ukraine, emergency services pulled four people from under rubble and almost others were evacuated after a Shahed drone destroyed a stable, according to authorities. Donald Trump responded sarcastically to questions about whether he would be visiting the site of the deadly crash over the Potomac River in Washington D.
All 67 people involved in the crash are presumed dead, authorities said previously. It follows claims by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky last week that around a third of the 11, North Korean troops deployed to Kursk have already been wounded or killed. The withdrawal was confirmed by A former Hollywood actor has been found guilty of attacking his former partner the day after he was released from prison under a scheme to cut jail overcrowding.
