Key points
- Diplomatic efforts to end the three-year war have stalled
- Russian drone strikes also reported in Kharkiv
- Zelensky is due to attend a NATO summit starting Tuesday
KYIV, Ukraine: Russian drone attacks killed three people in Ukraine’s northeastern region of Sumy, including a child, local authorities said on Tuesday.
According to AFP, it came a day after Ukraine said Russia carried out dozens of drone and missile strikes on its territory, killing 10 people in the capital Kyiv.
Diplomatic efforts to end the three-year war have stalled, with the last direct meeting between Kyiv and Moscow almost three weeks ago and no follow-up talks scheduled.
“We have information about three dead. Among them is an eight-year-old boy,” said Oleg Grygorov, head of the Sumy region’s military administration.
The boy’s body was pulled from the rubble of a destroyed house, he added.
“Serious condition”
“The strike took the lives of people from different families. They all lived on the same street. They went to sleep in their homes but the Russian drones interrupted their sleep — forever.”
Three people were wounded in the attack and have been hospitalised, with one in “serious condition”, Grygorov added.
Russian drone strikes were also reported in Kharkiv, where three people were wounded, the city’s mayor said on Telegram.
Meanwhile, Russia Today citing Russian military reported, Iskander missile strikes recently targeted two such facilities.
One strike, near the Ukrainian city of Sumy, reportedly resulted in up to 100 casualties and destroyed as many as 14 military vehicles, the ministry said in a statement on Monday.
The second strike, reported on Sunday, hit an area under Kyiv’s control in Russia’s Kherson Region, the ministry said. This operation involved an Iskander missile equipped with a cluster warhead that allegedly killed around 70 Ukrainian troops while destroying more than 10 vehicles.
Ukraine’s military confirmed the attack on a training site but reported a significantly lower toll – three soldiers killed and 14 wounded.
Drone attack on Moscow
According to AFP, Russia said a drone had targeted a residential building in Moscow overnight Monday, wounding two people, including a pregnant woman.
“About 100 people were evacuated from the building, including 30 children,” according to the region’s governor, Andrei Vorobyov, who added that two more drones were shot down.
Russia had fired dozens of drones and missiles at Ukraine a day earlier, ripping open a housing block in Kyiv, killing 10 civilians and burying others beneath the rubble.
Separate Russian attacks on Monday in the southern Odesa region left two people dead and another dozen wounded, local authorities said.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said a school was hit.
“Sadly, some people may still be trapped under the rubble,” he added.
Zelensky met British Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a surprise visit to London on Monday.
NATO summit
Zelensky is due to attend a two-day NATO summit in The Hague starting on Tuesday.
Russia occupies around a fifth of Ukraine and claims to have annexed four Ukrainian regions as its own since launching its invasion in 2022 — in addition to Crimea, which it captured in 2014.
Kyiv has accused Moscow of deliberately sabotaging a peace deal in order to prolong its full-scale offensive and to seize more territory.
