Ukrainian officials reported that Russia launched numerous drones towards Ukraine in nighttime assaults on Wednesday, ignoring the unilateral ceasefire declared by Kyiv that commenced at midnight.
The Russian Defence Ministry alleged that Ukraine did not uphold its own ceasefire, claiming that 53 Ukrainian drones were shot down by Russian air defenses over Russian territories, the Crimean Peninsula, and the Black Sea between Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning.
According to Russia-installed Gov. Sergei Aksyonov, a Ukrainian drone strike in Crimea’s city of Dzhankoi resulted in the deaths of five individuals. Aksyonov disclosed the casualties shortly after midnight, although he had posted about the attack itself over 90 minutes earlier.
Despite Kyiv’s ceasefire announcement, there was no official indication from Moscow that it would respect the ceasefire. With the conflict entering its fifth year post-Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, hopes for a cessation of hostilities were dim, especially after unsuccessful U.S.-led diplomatic endeavors to halt the war in the past year.
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The Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko disclosed that on Tuesday, Russian drone and missile strikes in Ukraine caused the death of 27 civilians and injured 120 others.
In northeastern Ukraine’s Sumy city, officials reported that two Russian drones targeted a kindergarten in the downtown area, resulting in the death of a security guard and injuring two others. Fortunately, no children were present during the attack.
Rescuers worked to put out a fire at a Ukrainian kindergarten building after a Russian drone attack in the northeastern city of Sumy on Wednesday. No children were present, but a female security guard was killed in the attack, which residents told Reuters was carried out in two waves.
The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine stated that Russian attacks in the past few days resulted in
