Drone attacks targeted the Ukrainian cities of Mykolaiv and Zaporizhia during the night from Saturday to Sunday. “A young girl of 15 and two boys of 4 and 17” are among the injured according to the first assessment by local authorities.
Russian drone attacks left five dead and nineteen injured in the cities of Mykolaiv and Zaporizhia in southern Ukraine. “Fires have broken out in residential buildings in the city and all emergency services are on the ground“, indicated the governor of the region, Vitaly Kim, on Telegram.
«The Russians attacked our city again with drones. Residential buildings were damaged“, previously declared the mayor of Mykolaiv, Oleksandr Senkevich, on his Telegram account. “The threat of kamikaze drones remains until everything is cleared“, he said.
In the town of Zaporizhia, frequently targeted by Russian forces, airstrikes left one dead and eighteen injured during the night from Sunday to Monday, according to the authorities. “The number of wounded as a result of the enemy's night attack on Zaporizhzhia increased to 18, including 5 children”, reported the governor of the region, Ivan Fedorov.
“The number of victims is being clarified”
Among them “include a 15-year-old girl and two boys aged 4 and 17. The number of victims is being clarified», Specified the Ukrainian emergency service on Telegram.
«As a result of the bombing, a two-story residential building was partially destroyed, a dormitory and a car dealership building were damaged», According to the same source. In October, one person was killed and sixteen injured in a series of nighttime bombings that hit Mykolaiv.
The city, located a little more than 50 km from the Dnieper River, which constitutes the front line between the Ukrainian and Russian armies in this area, had until now been relatively spared from attacks by Moscow's forces since the recapture by kyiv from the large neighboring city of Kherson in November 2022.
