A Russian overnight strike in western Ukraine hit a U.S. electronics manufacturer, killing one person and injuring at least 18 others, Ukrainian officials said on Thursday.
A missile attack injured 15 people and destroyed storage facilities at the manufacturer in the town of Mukachevo, emergency services and local authorities in the western Zakarpattia region said.
National television showed the region’s governor, Myroslav Biletskyi, standing near the building engulfed in smoke, who said the plant was producing consumer electronics, while Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha condemned the strike in a post on X.
“A fully civilian facility that has nothing to do with defence or the military,” he said.
“This is not the first Russian attack on American businesses in Ukraine, after strikes on Boeing offices in Kyiv earlier this year and other attacks.”
In the western city of Lviv, the attack killed one person, injured three more, and damaged 26 homes, according to Governor Maksym Kozytskyi.
Ukrainian Air Force said that Russia used 574 drones and 40 missiles in the overnight attack on the country, which was the biggest one so far in August.
“This is why efforts to force Russia to end the war are so critical,” Sybiha said.
The strike took place at a time of intense efforts by U.S. President Donald Trump to bring an end to the Russian war in Ukraine.
Sumy Strike
Earlier on Wednesday, at least 14 individuals, among them a family with three children, sustained injuries during an overnight Russian strike on Ukraine’s northern Sumy region, the country’s prime minister said.
Russia launched 15 drones in an assault on the Okhtyrka area in the early hours of Wednesday, local prosecutors said on the Telegram messaging app.
The children injured in the attack, which struck a residential neighbourhood in the town, were aged 5 months, 4 years and 6 years, Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko wrote on X.
“Russia continues to manifest its fears through acts of pure terrorism across Ukraine, once again targeting the homes of families and their sleeping children,” she said.
Russia, which denies targeting civilians, has used missiles and drones to strike Ukrainian towns and cities far from the front lines of the war.
Thousands of civilians, the vast majority of them Ukrainian, have been killed since Moscow invaded in 2022.
(With inputs from Reuters)
