Russian strike on Ukraine's Kupiansk kills one, wounds 10, officials say

A Russian strike on the frontline town of Kupiansk in northeastern Ukraine killed one person and wounded 10 more, regional authorities said on Thursday.

The governor, Oleh Syniehubov, initially said two people had been killed and three injured in the strike, but subsequently he corrected his statement on the death toll.

Regional prosecutors said later that the person who had died was a woman who had been admitted to hospital in a serious condition.


"The enemy struck near a shop and the town market," Syniehubov said in his initial statement.

Later he added that a two-storey retail building had been damaged, along with a dozen kiosks and the windows of nearby homes.

Russia occupied Kupiansk in the early days of its 2022 invasion but was pushed out by a lightning Ukrainian counter-offensive in September that year.

In recent months, Moscow's forces have been advancing slowly back towards the town and are now less than 4 km (2.5 miles) away from its northern outskirts according to open-source maps.