KYIV, Ukraine: Five people were killed as Russia struck Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv and Donetsk regions on Wednesday, local officials said.
A guided bomb attack killed two civilians, a 38-year-old woman and her father inside a car, in the northeastern Kharkiv region bordering Russia, said the region’s governor.
Russian forces have been occupying large parts of the region for months after they invaded in February 2022 and is under near-constant bombardment from Russian artillery.
On Wednesday morning, “two guided aerial bombs hit the centre of the town of Zolochiv,” around 15 kilometres from the Russian border, Oleg Synegubov, Kharkiv regional governor, said on national television.
He further said that another 13 people, including an 11-year-old child were wounded in the attack.
Further east in the Kharkiv region close to the city of Kupiansk, Russian shelling killed a 67-year-old woman in the village of Lelyukivka, the governor added.
Head of the region’s military administration, Vadym Filashkin, said in the eastern Donetsk region, two people were killed and six wounded in the small town of Girnyk, about 15 kilometres from the front line.
“The Russians attacked the town with Uragans this afternoon,” Filashkin wrote on Telegram, referring to rocket launchers.
Those killed were a 64-year-old man and a 57-year-old woman, he added.
Artillery and drone strikes in Nikopol, in the centre-east of Ukraine, injured four people, regional governor Sergiy Lyssak said.
