Escalating violence between Russia and Ukraine has resulted in deadly attacks in eastern Ukraine, including shelling of towns and residential areas on Sunday. Both sides have reported casualties, with civilian casualties mounting as the conflict continues unabated.
Russian shelling of towns in eastern Ukraine killed three people Sunday while a Moscow strike on a residential building in the town of Myrnograd wounded a dozen, Kyiv said.
Ukraine also said Moscow launched missile attacks on the northeastern Kharkiv region and sent attack drones across the center and south of the country.
Russia, meanwhile, said one woman was killed in Ukrainian shelling of a border village.
“Three people died as a result of today’s shelling in the Donetsk region,” the head of the embattled region Vadym Filashkin said on social media.
He said rescuers pulled out two bodies “from under the rubble of a house” in the town of Dobropillya, which he said Russia attacked with Iranian-made Shahed drones at night.
A 66-year-old man was also killed in the frontline town of Chasiv Yar, Filashkin said.
Further south, a Russian night-time strike on the east Ukrainian town of Myrnograd wounded a dozen people, Kyiv said.
Kyiv also said Russia launched more than two dozen Iranian-made Shahed attack drones across central and southern regions, including the Kyiv region.
“As a result of combat operations, 35 ‘Shaheds’ were shot down” over 10 regions, the air force said on social media.
Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine has dragged on for more than two years, with intense fighting in the east and regular attacks far from the frontline.
With AFP
