Russian drone attack kills two elderly residents in Kharkiv region village
2 people, an 81-year-old woman and an 83-year-old man, died when a Russian drone hit the village of Korotych in Kharkiv region overnight, as a separate drone struck a university in Kremenchuk.
2 people died overnight when a Russian drone attack hit the village of Korotych in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said on Telegram. The dead were an 81-year-old woman and an 83-year-old man, Ukrainian news site Ukrinform reported, citing Syniehubov.
"The enemy has taken the life of a man during a drone attack on the Kharkiv region," Syniehubov wrote, adding that another resident was being treated by medics for injuries sustained in the same attack. The strike also damaged 13 private homes and a vehicle in Korotych, and a fire destroyed a farm building, he said. Emergency crews brought the fire under control, Czech outlet iDNES.cz reported, citing the governor.
In a separate strike overnight, a Russian drone hit an academic building at Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi National University in Kremenchuk, in the Poltava region, setting off a fire and injuring one person, regional governor Vitalii Diakivnych said. Emergency services extinguished the blaze.
A Russian attack also injured two people at an unspecified business in Zhovkva, in the western Lviv region, according to regional administration head Maksym Kozytskyi.
The strikes were part of a wider overnight bombardment in which Russia launched 186 drones along with and Banderol missiles at Ukraine, Ukraine's air force said. shot down 150 of the drones, with impacts recorded at 27 locations across the country, the air force said, according to iDNES.cz.
The overnight attacks also struck Kyiv, where a drone hit a 24-storey residential building, and several other Ukrainian regions, as Russia continued a campaign of nightly strikes on towns and cities well away from the front line. Officials in each affected region reported their own casualty figures separately rather than a single nationwide toll.
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What we know
- Two people, an 81-year-old woman and an 83-year-old man, were killed in a Russian drone attack on the village of Korotych in Kharkiv region overnight, governor Oleh Syniehubov said.
- The attack also damaged 13 private homes and a vehicle, and a fire destroyed a farm building in Korotych, Syniehubov said.
- A separate drone strike hit an academic building at a university in Kremenchuk, Poltava region, injuring one person and starting a fire, governor Vitalii Diakivnych said.
- A drone attack in Zhovkva, Lviv region, injured two people at a business premises, regional head Maksym Kozytskyi said.
- Russia launched 186 drones and cruise missiles at Ukraine overnight; Ukraine's air force said it shot down 150 of the drones.
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Why it matters for Europe
The strikes on Korotych and Kremenchuk were part of a wide overnight bombardment that also hit Kyiv and other regions, continuing a pattern of Russian drone and missile attacks on towns and infrastructure far from the front line. Repeated strikes on rural settlements such as Korotych show that Russia's bombardment campaign reaches well beyond Ukraine's major cities, straining emergency services across several regions at once on a single night.
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Questions and answers
- Who was killed in the Kharkiv region attack?
- Two people: an 81-year-old woman and an 83-year-old man, residents of the village of Korotych, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said.
- What else was hit in the overnight attacks?
- A university building in Kremenchuk was hit, injuring one person, and a business in Zhovkva, in the Lviv region, was also struck, injuring two.
- How large was the wider Russian attack that night?
- Russia launched 186 drones and cruise missiles at Ukraine; Ukraine's air force said it shot down 150 of the drones.
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