The acting mayor of the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy said at least 31 people were killed in a Russian missile attack. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for a global response to the attack. “Talks have never stopped ballistic missiles and aerial bombs. What’s needed is an attitude toward Russia that a terrorist deserves,” he said.
Ukraine’s air defence units have intercepted and destroyed 43 drones out of 55 launched by Russia overnight targeting northern, southern and central areas of Ukraine, the air force said. But it did not say what happened to the drones that escaped destruction.
A Ukrainian F-16 pilot was killed in combat, according to the military, in the second such incident since the delivery of the precious United States-made fighters to Ukraine to help fight Russia’s invasion.
A Russian-guided bomb struck a house in the northeastern Ukrainian town of Kupiansk, injuring four people and possibly trapping three more under rubble, Kharkiv regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov said.
Russia’s Defence Ministry accused Ukraine of carrying out five attacks on its energy infrastructure over the past day, a violation of a US-brokered moratorium on such strikes.