At least one person killed in overnight attacks by Russia, President Zelensky says
One person was killed and 15 wounded in a Russian missile strike on a clinic in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Friday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.“Missile attack on Dnipro. ‘Rashist’ bastards attacked a medical facility. There are victims,” regional governor Serhiy Lysak said on the Telegram messaging app, using a derogatory term for Russians.
Zelensky’s office said in a statement that a fire had broken out on the outskirts of the northeastern city of Kharkiv after an oil depot was hit twice, and that equipment for pumping oil products had been damaged. The Ukrainian air force said it had shot down 10 missiles fired from the Caspian Sea, 23 Iranian-made Shahed drones and two reconnaissance drones during the overnight attacks.Several drones and several missiles hit targets in the Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions, officials said.“It was a very difficult night. It was loud - the enemy launched a mass attack on the region with missiles and drones,” Serhiy Lysak, the Dnipropetrovsk regional governor, said on the Telegram messaging app.
Officials in Kyiv said the roof of a shopping mall, a private house and several cars had been damaged.
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