Kiev [Ukraine], May 27: Russian attacks have killed at least four people in eastern Ukraine, injuring dozens more and damaging civilian infrastructure, regional officials said on Monday.
Oleh Syniehubov, military governor of the Kharkiv region, said a 25-year-old man and a 68-year-old man were killed in a rocket attack on the town of Derhachi.
Another 23 people were injured, while a civilian business, storage facilities and vehicles were damaged, he said. Further south, a 64-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman were killed after Russian forces shelled the city of Kramatorsk and the nearby settlement of Yasnohirka, prosecutors in the Donetsk region said.
Three other people were reportedly injured. Ukraine has been defending itself against a full-scale Russian invasion for more than four years.
Meanwhile, four people were killed in a Ukrainian attack in Horlivka, in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, according to the Russian occupation administration.
Over the weekend, Russia launched a large-scale assault on the Ukrainian capital that Tymur Tkachenko, head of Kiev's military administration, described as the biggest attack since the start of the invasion in terms of the number of locations damaged.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on social media that over 80 people had been confirmed injured.
Russia threatens fresh assault on Kiev
Russia on Monday threatened to launch another major assault on Kiev, a day after one of the largest-scale attacks on the Ukrainian capital since the beginning of the war.
A statement from the Foreign Ministry in Moscow urged foreign diplomats to leave Kiev as soon as possible, saying the Russian military would systematically target military installations and "command centres" in the city.
The ministry said the attack had been planned in response to Ukrainian shelling of a student residential building in the Russian-controlled town of Starobilsk, which occupying authorities said killed more than 20 civilians.
Ukraine's General Staff said the attack on Starobilsk targeted a military unit stationed there.
Russia has been systematically attacking Ukraine's hinterland since the war began in February 2022, repeatedly striking civilian infrastructure and residential buildings in the process.
Over the weekend, Russia bombarded the Kiev region with 600 drones and 90 missiles, according to the Ukrainian Air Force, in what was already considered an act of revenge for Starobilsk.
Russia's Defence Ministry confirmed the use of the new Oreshnik intermediate-range missile, which is particularly feared because of its destructive power and ability to strike targets across large parts of Europe. Ukrainian authorities reported two deaths in the Kiev area, while President Volodymyr Zelensky said 87 people had been injured, including three minors.
Kiev's city military administrator Tymur Tkachenko described the strike as Russia's largest attack since the start of the full-scale invasion in terms of the number of damaged locations.
Source: Qatar Tribune
