Russian attacks kill 10, injure dozens in Ukraine; Moscow says it hits ships, plants
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A police officer standing near the body of a resident who was killed in his car by a Russian drone strike, in the front-line city of Kramatorsk, Ukraine, on Sept 12.
PHOTO: REUTERS
- Russian air strikes in Ukraine killed nine civilians and injured dozens, targeting homes, infrastructure, and power plants across multiple regions on Sept 12.
- Ukrainian President Zelensky reported nearly 500 Russian drones attacking economic and civilian targets, aiming to damage Ukraine’s economy and resistance.
- Russia claimed strikes on Ukrainian ports and industrial plants, while Ukraine hit Russian facilities including a synthetic rubber plant, causing fires and injuries.
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KYIV – Russian air strikes in several Ukrainian regions on Sept 12 killed 10 people, injured dozens and damaged residential buildings and infrastructure across the country, officials said.
The civilian death toll has risen sharply in Ukraine over the past two months as Russia steps up attacks on power plants and other infrastructure.
Ukraine has hit energy facilities and warehouses in distant parts of Russia, and both sides have targeted each other’s shipping.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, writing on Telegram, said Russia had deployed nearly 500 drones against Ukrainian targets since early morning.
“Basically, the Russians have expanded the war away from the front, where they have no success, into the economy, and their tactics are as basic as it gets: destroying every site that could help people cope with the conditions of war,” Zelensky wrote.
“Russia wants to kill the Ukrainian economy and break our resistance,” he added.
The city council in Kramatorsk, one of Ukraine’s front-line “fortress cities” that Russia wants to capture, said Russian forces attacked private cars, killing three people in three incidents over a 90-minute period. Four people were injured.
“These are not military targets,” the council said. “They are ordinary civilian cars. People were going about their business.”
Firefighters dealing with the aftermath of a Russian drone strike at a railway station in Lutsk, Ukraine, on Sept 12.
PHOTO: REUTERS
The governor of Ukraine’s Zhytomyr region, west of Kyiv, Vitaliy Bunechko, said a Russian strike on a grocery store killed two people in the town of Zvyahel.
Bunechko said two petrol stations also came under attack as well as an unidentified “enterprise with foreign investment”.
Earlier, Zelensky reported attacks on the south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia and Kryvyi Rih, his hometown.
Governor of the Zaporizhzhia region, Ivan Fedorov, said two people were killed and 11 injured in assaults on Zaporizhzhia and other localities.
Oleksandr Vilkul, head of Kryvyi Rih’s military administration, said two people were killed in overnight attacks on the city by drones and missiles.
Police experts examining the remains of a private home in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, where two people died in an air strike early on Sept 12.
PHOTO: AFP
The Russian military said its forces hit Ukrainian steel maker Zaporizhstal in the city of Zaporizhzhia, an Interpipe Steel complex in Dnipro and several plants in Kryvyi Rih, including the Northern Iron Ore Beneficiation Works complex.
Reuters could not independently verify accounts from either side.
In the Black Sea port of Odesa, Regional Governor Oleh Kiper said nearly 40 people had been injured in attacks that extended from overnight well into the evening on Sept 12.
The Russia-installed head of areas of the eastern Donetsk region under Moscow’s control said three people had been killed in Ukrainian drone attacks.
In Moldova, on Ukraine’s western border, the authorities closed national airspace for nearly an hour after a drone was detected near the border. Seven border crossings were temporarily closed.
Russian drones have regularly entered Moldovan airspace despite official protests. During one instance this week, the departure of Zelensky’s aircraft to Norway was delayed.
Russian strikes on Ukrainian port
The Russian Defence Ministry said Russia’s forces have maintained their strikes on Ukrainian ports, hitting a cargo ship in Odesa it said was carrying goods for military use.
Earlier in the day, the ministry said its forces struck two cargo vessels overnight in the port of Chornomorsk.
A residential building targeted by a Russian air strike, in Odesa, southern Ukraine, on Sept 12.
PHOTO: EPA
Ukraine’s military said it hit one of Russia’s largest synthetic rubber producers in Togliatti in the Samara region, causing a fire.
The Togliattikauchuk plant specialised in the production of synthetic rubbers and fuel additives that are used in fuel for Russian missiles, it said.
Ilya Sukhikh, mayor of Togliatti, said several residential buildings were damaged and one person was injured.
Russian regional governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said industrial facilities in Samara region had been attacked by Ukrainian drones, without specifying which they were or whether they had been damaged, Interfax news agency reported.
In a separate attack, four commercial properties were set ablaze in the city of Taganrog in the Rostov region, local mayor Svetlana Kambulova said, according to TASS. REUTERS