At least four people have been killed in the south-eastern Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih following a Russian missile strike. Three others were injured, according to Oleksandr Vilkul, the head of the local military administration, on Telegram.
He believies a ballistic missile struck a civilian infrastructure site, causing a large fire. Several multi-storey residential buildings were also damaged. The information could not be independently verified.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was born in the city located about 70 kilometres from the front line, has been leading Ukraine’s resistance against the Russian invasion for more than three years.
Earlier, Russian drone attacks on Ukraine resumed in the night into Wednesday following a one-day pause.
In the Zaporizhzhya region, one person was killed and two others injured in drone strikes, regional governor Ivan Fedorov said on Telegram on Wednesday.
Fifteen drones also targeted the eastern city of Kharkiv, injuring at least eight people, according to Mayor Ihor Terekhov.
Ukraine’s civil defence force said buildings belonging to civilian firms were hit, with damage also inflicted on residential areas. After Ukraine experienced its first drone-free night of the year into Tuesday, the country’s air defence reported that Russia deployed 74 drones and drone decoys overnight into Wednesday.
Of these, 41 were intercepted, while the location of 20 were lost, likely due to Ukraine’s electronic countermeasures. The attacks primarily affected the Kharkiv, Donetsk and Odessa regions.
In Moscow, Russia’s Defence Ministry claimed to have shot down 93 Ukrainian drones overnight, mainly over the border region of Kursk. Drone warfare has become a near-daily tactic in the war, although the scale of destruction and casualties inflicted by Russian strikes far exceeds the impact of Ukrainian attacks. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky once again accused Moscow of violating a recent US-brokered agreement not to attack each other’s energy facilities. He said a drone hit a substation in the Sumy region, and in the Dnipropetrovsk region an artillery strike damaged a power line. Almost 4,000 customers saw their power knocked out as a result. (Agencies)
