Russian strikes killed at least two people in Ukraine and wounded over two dozen, Kyiv said, as Moscow claimed to have captured another village in the northwestern Sumy region.
Ukrainian officials said a Russian drone strike on a residential building in the city of Zhytomyr — west of Kyiv — killed one person, while a Russian missile attack on the central city of Dnipro killed another.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had attacked Dnipro with a ballistic missile after a day of attacking several regions, saying it showed Russia “ignores diplomacy.”
Zelensky said in his evening address that rescuers were still working at the site in Dnipro and that “Unfortunately, one person was killed.”
Zelensky said Thursday that the Sumy region is “subject to constant attacks by guided aerial bombs.”
Kyiv air force said Thursday that Moscow launched 145 Iranian-made Shahed drones on Ukraine overnight and that 85 of them were shot down by air defense.
Russia also said it had captured another village in the northeastern Ukrainian region of Sumy, where Moscow is advancing since pushing Ukrainian troops out of most of its western Kursk region.
In a statement on social media, Russia’s defense ministry said its troops had “liberated” the village of Zhuravka, just over the Ukrainian border.
The claimed Russian advances in Sumy point to the broader difficulties of the Ukrainian army that has steadily lost ground in Russia’s Kursk region after launching their surprise incursion last August.
