Ukraine reports several civilian casualties as Russia intensifies attacks
Sumy Oblast is located in northeastern Ukraine, where a couple were killed when they were hit by guided air bombs from Russia.
War between Russia and Ukraine: Amid the ongoing armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the latest update is that five people have been killed and ten others injured in Russian attacks in Ukraine. This update was shared by regional authorities early on Monday, as quoted in media reports.
“Civilian casualties were reported in Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kherson and Sumy Oblast,” The Kiev Independent reported.
An oblast is an administrative division of the constituent republics of Russia.
Sumy Oblast is located in northeastern Ukraine, where a couple was killed when they were hit by Russian guided aerial bombs that attacked the village of Yunakivka, located less than 10 km from the border with Russia.
One house was destroyed and five others were damaged in the attack, the Sumy Oblast military administration said.
Russian soldiers launched several attacks on Nikopol in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on Sunday morning. A 57-year-old man was killed when a Russian drone dropped explosives directly on his truck, The Kiev Independent reported.
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Governor Serhii Lysak said four people were injured late Sunday evening when Russian forces attacked the regional center of Dnipro. Two men aged 41 and 49 and two women aged 20 and 60 were hospitalized. The attack also damaged ten houses and several cars.
In Kherson Oblast, Russian attacks killed two people and injured one person on Sunday, Kherson Oblast Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said, according to The Kyiv Independent.
A 44-year-old man and a 62-year-old woman were killed when Russian forces attacked the village of Tiahynka.
Donetsk Oblast Governor Vadym Filashkin reported that five people were injured in Kostiantynivka, Kurakhove, Zakitne, Maksymilianivka and Chasiv Yar.
Russia also carried out attacks in Kharkov, Zaporizhiav and Mykolaiv oblasts, but there were no civilian casualties.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday that 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in the two years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion, adding that this number was far lower than estimates by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government.
“31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in this war. Not 300,000, not 150,000, not what Putin and his deceitful circle lied about. But nevertheless, each of these losses is a great sacrifice for us,” Zelenskyy said in Ukraine. Year 2024” forum in Kiev.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would not reveal the number of troops wounded or missing and that “tens of thousands of civilians” had been killed in Ukraine’s occupied territories, but said no exact figures would be available until the war was over. .
“We don’t know how many of our citizens they killed. We don’t,” he said.
It is the first time Kiev has confirmed the number of losses since Russia launched a full-scale war on February 24, 2022.
(With input from the agency)