Two consecutive Russian assaults on a medical heart within the northeastern Ukrainian metropolis of Sumy killed not less than 9 individuals Saturday morning, officers stated.
After the primary assault killed one individual, Russia attacked a second time as sufferers and workers have been evacuating, Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko stated.
Local officers in Sumy stated Iranian-made Shahed drones have been used within the assault. Eleven extra individuals have been injured, the top of the army administration of the town of Sumy, Oleksii Drozdenko, stated.
Sumy is positioned about 32 kilometers from Russia’s Kursk area, the place Ukrainian troops have been deployed since August 6 in an try and divert the Kremlin’s army consideration from the entrance line in Ukraine.
The Ukrainian air power stated it shot down 69 of 73 Russian drones launched in a single day and two of 4 missiles. Kiev metropolis authorities stated about 15 drones have been shot down over the Ukrainian capital and its suburbs.
In Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, native officers stated Saturday that the physique of a person was discovered below the rubble of an administrative constructing hit by a Russian missile on Friday, bringing the demise toll from that assault to 4. assault.
In Russia, the Defense Ministry stated Saturday that air defenses in a single day shot down 4 Ukrainian drones over the Belgorod area and one over the Kursk area, each areas on the border with Ukraine.
One individual was additionally killed when Ukraine shelled the Russian border city of Shebekino on Saturday, Belgorod regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov stated. Two different individuals have been injured.
