Russian attack on Ukraine kills five, injures 19
A Russian drone strike tore through a market in the frontline Ukrainian city of Nikopol this morning, killing five people and wounding 19 others, according to Ukraine's prosecutor general's office.
A Russian drone strike tore through a market in the frontline Ukrainian city of Nikopol this morning, killing five people and wounding 19 others, according to Ukraine’s prosecutor general’s office.
“This is yet another war crime committed by the Russian Federation,” the prosecutor’s office said on Telegram.
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Regional governor Oleksandr Ganja said in a Telegram post that the dead included three women and two men.
He also said a 14-year-old girl was among the 19 injured and remained in “critical condition”.
At the same time, a separate drone and missile attack killed one person and seriously wounded four others in Russia’s southern Rostov region, its governor said, while a cargo ship was damaged in the Sea of Azov.
The strike hit the port city of Taganrog, Rostov regional governor Yuri Slyusar said on Telegram, adding that the four wounded were in “critical condition”.
A missile also hit a “commercial facility”, Mr Slyusar said.
He added that falling drone debris struck a foreign-flagged cargo vessel in the Sea of Azov, sparking a fire, as air defences shot down drones over Taganrog Bay and other districts.
Mr Slyusar did not say where the attacks originated.
Kyiv has regularly launched strikes inside Russia in response to Russian attacks, which have hit Ukrainian territory every day since Moscow began its full-scale offensive in February 2022.
The latest attacks came a day after Russian daytime strikes killed 14 people in Ukraine.
Those strikes included a Russian attack on Korosten in Ukraine’s Zhytomyr region, which damaged up to 200 homes and killed one person, local officials said.