Kyiv also reported that Russian shelling killed one person in Ukraine’s southern Odesa region and another in the southern Kherson region on Monday.
Russia’s war in Ukraine, which has lasted almost two years, has intensified in the last week.
Ukraine’s air force announced that Russia launched 90 Iranian-made Shahed-136/131 drones last night from the occupied Crimean peninsula and Kursk and Primorsk Akhtarsk in Russia.
An Air Force post on Telegram said defenders had destroyed 87 Russian drones, a record number.
The report also said that the Russians also fired missiles in the northeastern Kharkiv region, southern Kherson and Zaporizhia regions.
Odesa Oblast Governor Oleh Kiper said a 15-year-old boy was killed and seven others were injured when debris from a downed drone fell on a residential building. The wreckage also caused minor fires, including in the city’s harbor.
A 73-year-old woman was killed in a shooting in Kherson.
Air danger has been declared in most regions of Ukraine, in fact, air defense was operating in all regions, the military said.
Lviv, located in western Ukraine near the Polish border, was also targeted by drones. The city’s mayor, Andrijus Sadov, said the museum dedicated to controversial Ukrainian nationalist figure Roman Shuchevyts, who fought for Ukraine’s independence in World War II, was badly damaged. University buildings in Dubliani were also damaged.
A. Sadovas called the blow symbolic and cynical on social media. “This is a war for our history,” he said.
At the time, Moscow reported Ukrainian attacks in Russia’s Belgorod region. One person was killed and another wounded in the shelling of Shebekin in the area near the Ukrainian border, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said.
During Ukrainian shelling in the Russian-occupied parts of the Donetsk region, four people were killed and 13 others were injured, Denis Pushilin, the leader of the Russian-imposed region of the occupied Donetsk region, announced a few hours following midnight on Monday.
All of the strikes followed a series of intense bombardments that began on Friday, when Russia launched an 18-hour attack that killed at least 49 people. The death toll was raised on Monday following rescuers in Kyiv said eight more people had been pulled from the rubble.
At least 24 people were killed in the Russian city of Belgorod on Saturday in a shooting blamed on Ukraine, local officials said.
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2024-07-14 03:53:39
