Russian artillery and aerial attacks killed nine people in Ukraine — including a child — in strikes across the country on Tuesday, officials said.<\/p>\n
Those strikes came as Moscow, which invaded Ukraine more than four years ago, said a Ukrainian drone had hit a house in Russia, killing a child and his parents.<\/p>\n
Russia’s invasion has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and forced millions of people from their homes in the bloodiest conflict in Europe since World War II.<\/p>\n
The two sides have stepped up deadly long-range drone and missile attacks in recent months, mainly targeting energy infrastructure, with Moscow aiming to dent Ukrainian resolve and Kyiv targeting Russian energy revenues.<\/p>\n
Russian shelling in the southern city of Kherson — captured by Russia and then liberated in 2022 — killed four people and wounded several others, a regional official said.<\/p>\n
The official, Oleksandr Prokudin, likened the Russian shelling on Kherson to “hell” and posted video showing bodies strewn on the street and bloodied victims.<\/p>\n
The attack in Kherson came just hours after a Russian drone attack on a passenger bus in the frontline city of Nikopol killed four people, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.<\/p>\n
“The Russians continue their deliberate terror against people in Nikopol and other cities and communities near the front,” Zelensky added, describing such Russian attacks as “human safaris”.<\/p>\n
Regional officials posted photos showing a yellow mini-bus ripped open in the attack and remains of those killed lying on the street.<\/p>\n
Nikopol, which had a pre-war population of around 100,000 people, lies on the banks of the Dnipro river, which cuts through Ukraine and forms a de facto front line in the south of the country.<\/p>\n
The city is in the Dnipropetrovsk region, where Russian ground forces are battling to advance.<\/p>\n
Moscow’s army has been regularly attacking civilians in their cars or in public transport with drones over the Dnipro.<\/p>\n
The strike in Nikopol is the latest in a series of deadly attacks in recent days that have spurred Ukrainian officials to warn that the situation in the city could further deteriorate.<\/p>\n
Overnight, a separate Russian drone strike on the Dnipropetrovsk region killed an 11-year-old boy and wounded five others when a house caught fire, the governor said.<\/p>\n
In Russia, a Ukrainian drone strike on a residential building killed a boy, born in 2014, and two adults in the Russian region of Vladimir, east of Moscow, said Governor Alexander Avdeev.<\/p>\n
The couple’s five-year-old daughter was taken to hospital with burns.<\/p>\n
The region is more than 500 kilometres (300 miles) from the fighting in eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian artillery and aerial attacks killed nine people in Ukraine — including a child — in strikes across…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,2034,2035,480,2896,1290,3065,2360,2362,1292,2363,3067,2033,2359,3066,5,1288,1293,1507,2036,1291,261,25,11,2037,2038],"class_list":{"0":"post-4217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-afp","9":"tag-anti-ukrainian-sentiment","10":"tag-attacks","11":"tag-conflicts","12":"tag-dnipro","13":"tag-foreign-relations-of-ukraine","14":"tag-human-safari-terror-campaign","15":"tag-imperialism","16":"tag-invasions","17":"tag-invasions-of-ukraine","18":"tag-military-of-russia","19":"tag-military-of-ukraine","20":"tag-military-operations","21":"tag-military-operations-of-the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine","22":"tag-military-operations-of-the-russo-ukrainian-war","23":"tag-russia","24":"tag-russia-ukraine-military-relations","25":"tag-russia-ukraine-relations","26":"tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine","27":"tag-russian-irredentism","28":"tag-russian-ukrainian-wars","29":"tag-russo-ukrainian-war","30":"tag-ukraine","31":"tag-war","32":"tag-warfare","33":"tag-wars"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}