{"id":297,"date":"2026-06-02T02:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T02:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/297\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T02:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T02:47:07","slug":"russian-attacks-kill-at-least-five-and-injure-dozens-across-ukraine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/297\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian attacks kill at least five and injure dozens across Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russian air attacks<\/a> on major Ukrainian cities including Kyiv<\/a>, Dnipro and Kharkiv killed at least five people and wounded dozens early on Tuesday, authorities said, after days of warnings that Moscow was planning a major assault.<\/p>\n

Four people were killed and 16 injured in a Russian attack on Dnipro, in eastern Ukraine<\/a>, regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha said on Telegram.<\/p>\n

All those injured were hospitalised and were reported to be in a moderate condition, he said, posting pictures of heavily damaged residential buildings, burnt-out vehicles and a destroyed children’s playground.<\/p>\n

In Kyiv, at least one person was killed and 29 others were injured across the capital, according to Tymur Tkachenko, the head of the capital’s military administration.<\/p>\n

Read moreTalk to Russia? First, Europe needs to pick an envoy \u2013 and know what it wants to say<\/a><\/p>\n

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a suspected missile<\/a> strike on a 24-storey apartment building triggered a collapse, with people likely trapped under the rubble. Other buildings, including a nine-storey apartment block, caught fire from suspected missile debris, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the Obolon district, cars are burning after being struck by falling missile debris. There are also fires at two locations in open areas, including one near a kindergarten,\u201d Klitschko said.<\/p>\n

Thousands of Kyiv residents were taking refuge in metro stations and other shelters, witnesses said, after air raid warnings covered much of the country early on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Warnings of a major attack<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> on Monday reiterated warnings of a potentially major assault and urged residents to pay special attention to air raid alerts.<\/p>\n

\u201cIntelligence warnings regarding Russian strikes remain in effect. A massive strike is possible, they have prepared one,\u201d Zelensky said in his nightly video address.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur defenders are ready 24\/7 to the fullest extent possible with the supplies currently available.\u201d<\/p>\n

Russia<\/a> last week warned that it intended to launch \u201csystematic strikes\u201d on targets in Kyiv linked to the Ukrainian military as well as decision-making centres, and urged foreigners to leave.<\/p>\n

It said the action was in response to a drone strike last month on a dormitory in Ukraine’s Russian-held Luhansk region, which killed 21 people. Ukraine denied carrying out the attack.<\/p>\n

Read moreUkraine: How a kamikaze drone partially operated by AI is attacking Russian convoys<\/a><\/p>\n

In Ukraine’s north-eastern Kharkiv region, 10 people, including a child, were injured in drone<\/a> and missile attacks, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said on Telegram.<\/p>\n

Reuters could not independently verify all the reports.<\/p>\n

Russia has targeted Ukraine’s power supplies and infrastructure, while Ukraine has stepped up attacks on oil<\/a> facilities inside Russia this year, sometimes resulting in casualties. Both sides deny targeting civilians.<\/p>\n

The war in Ukraine has ground on for more than four years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.<\/p>\n

Efforts to end the conflict have made little progress, with the administration of US President Donald Trump<\/a> focused on conflicts in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

(FRANCE 24 with Reuters)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian air attacks on major Ukrainian cities including Kyiv, Dnipro and Kharkiv killed at least five people and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[241,217,158,242,239,240,26,238,214,72],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-air-attacks","tag-dnipro","tag-kyiv","tag-military-administration","tag-missile-attacks","tag-russian-attack","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian-cities","tag-vitali-klitschko","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}