A Russian missile strike on Ukraine’s southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region on Tuesday killed at least nine people, injured dozens of train passengers, and damaged civilian infrastructure, according to officials.
The two-wave strike killed seven in the regional capital of Dnipro, said governor Serhiy Lysak, where the blast wave also shattered train carriage windows and showered passengers with broken glass.
Nearly 70 people, including 10 children, were injured, he said, adding the numbers could still rise. Two people were also killed in the town of Samar, around 10 kilometres (6 miles) from Dnipro, the state emergencies service said.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called on Kyiv’s Western partners to respond to the attack. NATO leaders are currently in The Hague for an alliance summit, where President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hopes to secure more military support against Russia’s full-scale invasion launched in 2022.
“It is a matter of credibility for allies to step up pressure on Moscow,” Sybiha wrote on X.
He added that schools, kindergartens and a hospital were also damaged in Dnipro. Officials did not provide details of the damage in Samar.
Russia has stepped up air strikes on Ukraine in recent weeks, particularly on its capital Kyiv, where 28 people were killed on June 17 in the deadliest such attack this year.
Another 10 people were killed in air attacks on Kyiv and the surrounding region on Monday.
Sumy Strike
An 8-year-old boy and two adults lost their lives in a Russian drone strike on a village in Ukraine’s Sumy region overnight, the northeastern region’s military administration said early Tuesday.
“The strike took the lives of people from different families,” the administration said on the Telegram messaging app. “They all lived on the same street. They went to sleep in their homes. But Russian drones interrupted their sleep – forever.”
The full scale of the overnight attack on the region was not immediately clear.
There was no immediate comment from Russia. Both sides deny targeting civilians in their attacks, but thousands of civilians have died in the war that Russia started with the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Ukraine Strikes Russia
Meanwhile, a Ukrainian drone struck a multi-storey apartment building outside Moscow early on Tuesday, triggering a fire and injuring two people, TASS news agency quoted a local official as saying.
Andrei Vorobyov, the governor of the Moscow region, said the drone started a fire on the 17th floor of the building in the town of Krasnogorsk, west of the capital. The injured people were receiving treatment at a hospital.
Vorobyov said two other drones were shot down west of Moscow.
(With inputs from Reuters)
