War in Ukraine: six dead after Russian strikes on several regions of the country

Europe 1 with AFP // Photo credit: Narciso Contreras / ANADOLU / Anadolu via AFP 10:13 p.m., April 8, 2024

At least six people were killed on Monday following Russian bombings in several Ukrainian regions, including Zaporizhia, already the victim of deadly strikes the day before, local authorities announced.

Russia has recently increased massive strikes in Ukraine

According to Ivan Fedorov, the governor of the Zaporizhia region, three people were killed and eight injured during a Russian missile strike targeting "an industrial facility". “According to preliminary data, 14 buildings were damaged including seven buildings, a health establishment and a cultural institution,” he said on Telegram. 

In the Sumy region (north), one person was killed and five injured in Russian bombings on the eponymous capital and the town of Bilopillia, which damaged administrative and residential buildings, police said. In Chassiv Iar, a town in the east of the country under threat of an offensive by the Russian army, a 77-year-old woman was killed and three people injured in artillery fire, according to Vadym Filachkine, head from the Donetsk region where the city is located.

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One person was also killed in the Poltava region in central Ukraine and five injured, including three children, after gunfire caused a fire and the roof of a building to collapse, the government said. Governor Filip Pronin. On Sunday, three people had already been killed in Russian strikes in the Zaporizhia region, according to Ukrainian authorities.

Russia has recently increased massive strikes in Ukraine, targeting in particular the electricity network in response to Ukrainian attacks carried out against refineries on Russian soil, themselves organized in retaliation for Russian bombings of Ukrainian cities.