Two consecutive Russian assaults on a clinical centre within the north-eastern Ukrainian town of Sumy killed a minimum of 9 folks on Saturday morning, officers mentioned.
After the primary strike killed one particular person, Russia attacked a 2d time while sufferers and body of workers have been evacuating, Ukraine’s Internal Minister Ihor Klymenko mentioned.
Native officers in Sumy reported that Iranian-made Shahed drones have been used within the assault. 11 people have been wounded, the top of the Sumy Town Army management, Oleksii Drozdenko, mentioned.
Sumy lies some 32 kilometres from Russia’s Kursk area, the place Ukrainian troops had been deployed since Aug. 6 in a bid to divert the Kremlin’s army center of attention clear of the entrance line in Ukraine.
Ukraine’s air drive mentioned it shot down 69 of 73 Russian drones introduced in a single day in addition to two of the 4 missiles. Town government in Kyiv mentioned round 15 drones have been shot down over the Ukrainian capital and its outskirts.
In Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s house town, native officers mentioned on Saturday {that a} guy’s frame was once discovered below the rubble of an administrative construction hit through a Russian missile on Friday, bringing the loss of life toll from that assault to 4.
In Russia, the Defence Ministry mentioned Saturday that air defences in a single day had shot down 4 Ukrainian drones over the Belgorod area and one over the Kursk area, each spaces bordering Ukraine.
One particular person was once additionally killed when Ukraine shelled the Russian border town of Shebekino on Saturday, Belgorod regional Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov mentioned. Two people have been wounded.