Five civilians were killed on Tuesday in new Russian bombings in eastern and southern Ukraine.
Regional authorities are also reporting power outages following the strikes.
In the Kharkiv region (east of the country), two men were killed and two others injured in the village of Kurylivka, near the city of Kupiansk, after shelling hit an agricultural facility in the morning, Governor Oleg said Synegubov.
Three hours later, the town of Vovchansk, located about 90 km to the northeast near the Russian border, came under artillery fire that killed a 61-year-old woman and injured another, 51, at a local market, the governor said.
In the Kherson region (south), also targeted daily by Russian fire, an 83-year-old woman was fatally injured in the courtyard of her house in the village of Lvové, hit by nighttime bombardment, said the regional governor. Oleksandr Prokudin.
A 64-year-old man was also killed by artillery fire in the town of Nikopol (southeast of Ukraine), according to the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region (center-east), Serguiï Lyssak.
“Massive drone attack”
During the night, Russia fired 23 “Shahed” explosive drones of Iranian design at its neighbor, the Ukrainian air force said, adding that it had shot down 16 of these devices in the Kherson regions. , Zaporizhia (south of the country) and Dnipropetrovsk.
Governor Serguiï Lyssak reported a “massive drone attack” on this territory, for the second night in a row.
Ten drones were shot down over the region, he said, adding that several others hit targets, including an energy site and infrastructure, in the regional center city of Dnipro.
In occupied territory in eastern Ukraine, three civilians were killed and another injured in a Ukrainian strike in Kreminna in the Lunansk region, authorities installed by Moscow said.
The injured “was transported to a medical facility in the town of Roubizhne for an injury caused by a mine explosion.”