Russian overnight attack on Ukraine kills one, injures several, including infant, Ukraine say
KYIV (Reuters) - At least one person was killed and several injured, including an infant and a 7-year-old boy, in Russia's overnight drone attacks on Ukraine, regional officials said early on Wednesday.
A 45-year-old civilian was killed and two injured in a strike on a settlement near the frontline in the Zaporizhzhia region, the governor of the southeastern Ukrainian region said in a post on the Telegram messaging app.
An infant, a child and six other civilians were injured in a Russian drone attack on Kharkiv, regional officials there said, in what seemed to be the latest in a series of bombings of the city not far from Russia's border.
"Fifteen drone strikes were carried out on Kharkiv," Ihor Terekhov, Kharkiv's mayor, said in a post on Telegram messaging app.
"We have information about four injured, two of whom are children."
Oleh Sinehubov, governor of the Kharkiv region of which the city of Kharkiv is the administrative centre, said that a 9-month infant and a 7-year-old boy were among the injured.
The attacks came as both sides accuse each other of breaking a U.S.-brokered partial ceasefire on strikes on energy and Black Sea infrastructure.
The full-scope of the Russian attack on Ukraine was not immediately clear, but Ukraine's Navy said in a post on Telegram that its naval forces destroyed six Russian drones in southern Ukraine.
Russia has also recently intensified its strikes on Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, with its attacks killing at least two people over the weekend and injuring tens of civilians.
Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 and has waged a bloody and brutal three-year war. Both sides deny targeting civilians, saying their attacks are aimed at destroying each other's infrastructure crucial to war efforts.
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