2023-09-08 10:45:53
At least four people were killed and dozens of others injured on Friday in a series of Russian strikes and bombings targeting towns and villages in Ukraine, Ukrainian authorities said.
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Three civilians were killed and four injured by a bomb dropped from an aircraft on Odradokamianka in the southern Kherson region, Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said on Telegram.
This locality faces Russian forces deployed on the other bank of the Dnieper.
In Kryvyï Rig, the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelensky in the south of the country, a bombing hit an administrative building leaving one dead and 44 injured, according to emergency services. Three people are in serious condition.
According to the Ukrainian police, a police officer was killed and nine of his colleagues were among the injured.
Russia bombs Ukrainian cities almost every night.
In northern Ukraine, a residential area in the city of Sumy was hit. Around twenty buildings were damaged, according to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry. Three people were injured, including an elderly couple who were pulled from the rubble.
Further east, in Zaporizhia, a man was injured by a Russian strike at dawn, according to the head of the regional military administration, Yurii Malachko.
Beyond these nighttime bombings which can target the entire territory on a daily basis, the Ukrainian military authorities have counted near the front, 29 localities under Russian fire over the last 24 hours, killing at least one woman.
This region partially occupied by the Russian army is the scene of the main Ukrainian counter-offensive in southern Ukraine to break through the Russian lines.
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