6 killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine as Kyiv continues drone counterstrikes
- In one incident, a 14-year-old boy was killed by a mine in a field in Ukraine’s Mykolaiv region, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said
- Meanwhile, the Russian defence ministry announced on Sunday that Ukraine had launched 27 drones in an overnight attack on western Russia
Russian attacks on Ukraine over a 24-hour period killed six people, local officials reported on Sunday.
Two people were killed and three more injured in the Kherson area after more than 100 shells bombarded the region over the weekend, local governor Oleksandr Prokudin wrote on social media.
Two guided bombs later hit key infrastructure in Kherson city, sparking a partial blackout and disruption to the area’s water supply, reported the head of the city’s military administration, Roman Mrochko.
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Ukraine says Russian strike killed over 50 in one of the deadliest attacks of the war
Local officials said two more people died in the Donetsk area and that a 57-year-old man and a 54-year-old woman were killed by an air strike that destroyed their home in the Kharkiv region.
In a separate incident, a 14-year-old boy was killed by a mine in a field in Ukraine’s Mykolaiv region, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said. The explosion also injured another 12-year-old boy.
Fighting remained fierce across eastern Ukraine over the weekend, with Russian forces repeatedly attempting to encircle the city of Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region, military officials said.
Illia Yevlash, spokesman for the Ukrainian military’s eastern forces, told journalists that forces defending the area had faced 10 separate attacks in the space of 24 hours.
“The enemy is trying to attack us in the direction of Kupiansk to encircle it and reach the banks of the Oskol River,” Yevlash told Ukrainian television. He said Ukrainian forces in the town of Lyman in the Donetsk region had also faced heavy attack.