Ukraine also reported that Moscow carried out missile attacks in the northeastern region of Kharkiv overnight Sunday and sent attack drones to many regions.
At the time, Russia reported that one woman had been killed by Ukrainian shelling in a border village. It was later reported that a Ukrainian drone fell on an oil storage facility in the city of Kursk.
Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine has been ongoing for more than two years, with heavy fighting in the east and regular attacks far from the front lines.
“During today’s shelling in the Donetsk region, three people were killed,” the head of the region, Vadymas Filashkinas, said on social networks.
He said rescuers had pulled two bodies from under the rubble of a house in Dobropilia, which he said Russia had attacked overnight with Iranian-made Shahed drones.
V. Filashkin said that a 66-year-old man died in Časiv Yar, which is near the front.
12 injured
At that time, a dozen people were injured during a Russian night strike in the eastern Ukrainian city of Myrnohrad, Kyiv reported.
“The number of victims of the rocket attack in Myrnohrad has increased to 12,” said V. Filashkin.
Myrnohrad is located in the Donetsk region, regarding 40 km from the front line with Russian forces.
Local prosecutors earlier said Russia fired three S-300 missiles into the residential area around 3 a.m. of the night
Prosecutors said a 16-year-old boy was injured in the attack, while the other injured ranged in age from 34 to 95. 17 high-rise buildings were damaged in the explosions.
Officials released photos of wrecked cars and blackened walls of Soviet-era homes and debris lying outside.
The Ukrainian Air Force announced earlier on Sunday that it had shot down 35 Shahed attack drones launched by Russia last night.
In a statement on the Telegram social network, the Russians attacked the country overnight Sunday with four S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles and 39 Shahed drones.
35 drones were shot down in the regions of Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy, Odesa, Kherson, Khmelnytskyi, Vinnytsia, Kyiv and Zhytomyr.
Ukrainian forces reported that the drone attack damaged an industrial facility in the Odesa region and a power transmission line in the Mykolaiv region. In addition, Russian soldiers attacked a company in the Dnipropetrovsk region with rockets, injuring a person there.
A fire broke out in an infrastructure object following the debris of a downed drone fell in the Vinnytsia region. No one was hurt.
Also overnight, Russian troops shelled the territory of a rest camp in Bohoduchiv, northeast of Kharkiv, local authorities said. A minibus caught fire, an outbuilding was damaged, no one was injured.
The head of the region, Oleh Synjehubov, said that the shooting took place just following midnight. He showed pictures of burning wooden houses.
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2024-04-14 21:15:50
