The missile and drone attacks have also injured dozens of people across the country, according to authorities from several regions including Kiev, Odessa, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kharkiv.
At least 14 people were killed in Ukraine overnight from Wednesday to Thursday by Russian strikes, including seven in Odessa (south), four in the capital Kiev, and three in the Dnipropetrovsk region (center), according to authorities.
These missile and drone attacks have also injured dozens of people across the country, as reported by authorities from several regions including Kiev, Odessa, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kharkiv. In a Russian retaliatory attack, two children aged 5 and 14 were killed by a Ukrainian drone strike on a building in the Krasnodar region (south), announced regional governor Veniamin Kondratiev.
Since the beginning of the conflict four years ago, the Russian army has attacked almost nightly Ukrainian territory with missiles and hundreds of drones, recently intensifying daytime aerial raids. Tens of thousands of civilians have been killed since the Russian invasion in February 2022.
Talks have not brought the warring parties closer to an agreement
In Kiev, “four people were killed (…) including a twelve-year-old boy,” said the mayor of the capital, Vitali Klitschko, adding that “45 residents were injured,” including several medical staff members. According to him, the attacks on Kiev are still ongoing Thursday morning.
“In the Podilsky district, where the ground floor of a residential building collapsed, a child was rescued from the rubble,” he described. In the same district, a low-altitude flying drone crashed into an 18-story building, he said. The city of Odessa (south), where at least seven people died, was the target of “several waves of missile and drone attacks during the night,” reported local military administration chief Sergiy Lysak.
Three people were also killed in the Dnipropetrovsk region (center) in a Russian attack, said regional military administration chief Oleksandr Ganzha. Talks under the auspices of the United States have not brought the warring parties closer to an agreement, with negotiations at a standstill for several weeks.
