Russian attacks kill five, including child, in east Ukraine
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Ukraine’s air force said 60 Russian drones were detected in Ukrainian airspace overnight and into the morning of Oct 22 and that 42 were destroyed.
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KYIV – Russian drone and artillery attacks killed five people, including a child, in the eastern Ukrainian regions of Sumy and Donetsk on Oct 22, officials said.
Sumy lies across the border from Kursk in Russia, where Ukrainian troops launched a major offensive in August
“Three people, including one child, died as a result of a night-time attack by enemy drones on residential buildings,” the regional authorities said, referring to the city of Sumy.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for fresh support from Kyiv’s Western partners to help his forces protect towns and cities.
“This Russian terror can be overcome only through unity with the world,” he said, urging allies to supply more weapons, including air defence systems.
He also called for “investments in weapons production in Ukraine” and “long-range strikes on Russian military logistics, military airfields and bases of Russian troops”.
Separately, emergency services in the eastern Donetsk region, where Russian forces are steadily advancing, said two people had been killed and another wounded by Russian shelling on the town of Myrnohrad.
Moscow’s Defence Ministry claimed its latest advances in the region on Oct 22, saying its forces had captured the abandoned front-line settlement of Novosadove in the Donetsk region.
Ukraine’s air force said 60 Russian drones in total had been detected in Ukrainian airspace overnight and into the morning of Oct 22 and that 42 were destroyed.
Sumy, which borders Russia, has been under persistent bombardment since the beginning of the war in 2022, when Russian forces briefly captured sectors of the industrial territory before being pushed back.
The authorities said more than two dozen Russian drones had been shot down there overnight.
The Ukrainian operation in Kursk is part of a broader roadmap to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine recently outlined by President Volodymyr Zelensky.
In occupied southern Ukraine, Russian-installed officials said a Ukrainian drone attack on the town of Enerhodar, home to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, killed one person. AFP
