KYIV: Three people including a 12-year-old boy were killed in Russian strikes on eastern Ukraine, where Russian troops have claimed steady advances in recent weeks, local authorities said on Monday.
The head of the Donetsk region, which the Kremlin claimed to have annexed in late 2022, said that two people were killed and another injured by Russian attacks on the village of Mykhaylivka, AFP reported.
A 12-year-old boy is among the dead, the official, Vadim Filashkin, said on social media, describing two aerial attacks thirty minutes apart that left several homes damaged.
Separately, one person was killed and two injured in a Russian rocket attack in the eastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv, where Moscow’s troops have recently captured several villages, the governor said.
Kharkiv borders Russia and has been under persistent shelling since Moscow ordered its invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Russian troops launched a renewed ground offensive there last month.
Moscow targeted Slobozhanske, southeast of the region’s main city, also called Kharkiv, around midnight local time, Governor Oleg Synegubov said.
Synegubov said on social media that houses were damaged. One man died. Another man and a woman were injured.
US Permission to Ukraine
Washington last week gave Ukraine limited permission to use Western-supplied weapons to attack some military targets on Russian territory as part of Kyiv’s efforts to fend off attacks on Kharkiv.
