Kyiv Attack Followed by Deadly Exchanges Across Ukraine-Russia Frontlines
At least 10 people were killed in Ukrainian attacks on Russia and Moscow-occupied territory, local officials said on Friday, as Ukraine reported five killed in Russian strikes.
The exchange of fire comes a day after Russia launched one of its most intense drone and missile attacks on Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, killing at least 30 people, according to rescue services.
On Friday, a Ukrainian strike on a market in the Russian-occupied part of the southern Zaporizhzhia region killed five people, said Yevgeny Balitsky, the Kremlin-appointed governor. "This is a strike against civilian life — against people who had come to buy groceries," Balitsky said on Telegram.
Two other deaths were reported in strikes on Russia's western Belgorod and Bryansk regions, both bordering Ukraine, local officials said.
In Ukraine, a strike on the northeastern region of Sumy set a house ablaze and killed four people, including a toddler. "Sadly, two women, an elderly man, and a small child — a girl not yet two years old — were killed. The Russian strike took her life along with her mother's," said Oleg Grygorov, head of the Sumy regional military administration, on Telegram. Three more people were wounded in the attack.
One person was killed and five wounded in the central eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, regional military head Oleksandr Ganzha said on Telegram.
Kyiv's air force reported that Russia launched two missiles and 105 drones at Ukraine overnight. Russia's Defence Ministry said it shot down 155 Ukrainian drones over its regions and annexed Crimea overnight.
The Thursday attack on Kyiv was among the most severe since Russia's full-scale invasion began in February 2022. At least 30 people died in the capital, according to official figures released Friday.
