Casualty toll exceeds 100 as Russian attacks continue across Ukraine
The number of people injured in Russia’s massive overnight attack on Ukraine has surpassed 100, with fresh strikes continuing throughout Thursday, as rescue operations remain underway in several cities.
In Kyiv, the toll rose to 60 injured, including children and an emergency medical team hit during a repeated strike.
Four people were killed, among them a child. Rescuers continued clearing rubble from damaged apartment buildings and a mini-hotel.
In Odesa, nine deaths were confirmed and 23 people injured. The city declared a day of mourning.
Additional daytime strikes damaged the roof of a car dealership, shattered windows and destroyed vehicles inside, while three people were hurt at a damaged market.
In Dnipro, the death toll rose to three after rescuers recovered a woman’s body from a damaged building. A total of 34 people were injured in the region, with 13 still hospitalized.
Russian forces shelled Kherson throughout the morning, hitting public transport stops, private homes and civilian vehicles and leaving the city without electricity. Seven people were reported injured by midday. Two more died and seven were wounded in attacks on the Kherson district the previous day.
In Kharkiv Oblast, a woman was killed and six people injured in a drone strike on Merefa. Later, Russian forces hit the central part of Kharkiv, striking a two-story building.
In Sumy Oblast, two drone attacks targeted gas stations: one employee suffered acute stress reaction, while another strike killed one person and injured another. Data on casualties is still being clarified.
In Zaporizhzhia, a daytime strike damaged a public transport stop, an adjacent building and eight nearby apartment blocks. No casualties were reported.
In Chernihiv Oblast, two people were injured over the past day: a 50-year-old woman in Semenivka and a 41-year-old truck driver hit by an FPV drone in the Horodnia territorial community.
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