Russian strikes on Ukraine kill eight, including children

Russian strikes on Ukraine - including in Kyiv - killed eight people, Ukrainian authorities said Sunday, a day after Moscow vowed to achieve its war aims "no matter the circumstances."

Russia has stepped up attacks on Ukraine's capital in the fifth year of its invasion, as the country braces for another winter of war, with Ukraine charging that Moscow is deliberately hitting civilian targets. Interior Minister Ivan Vyhivskyi announced the latest deaths on Sunday afternoon, saying Russian strikes had hit a children's centre in the northern city of Sumy, killing three people including a 16-year-old girl.

Earlier, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said three people had been killed in night-time strikes on the southern Zaporizhzhia region and a Russian drone strike had killed one man in Kyiv.


Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko said a woman and two 16-year-olds had also been wounded and hospitalised in the capital. "The enemy continues to relentlessly attack the Kyiv region with strike drones," the city's administration said.

"Sixteen sites have been damaged," including 12 private houses in Kyiv's outskirts, as well as a warehouse and production facility, it added. And authorities in the Odesa region said a "massive strike" on the south of the Black Sea region had killed one more person. Russian strikes damaged housing, a shop, a hotel, a medical building and a warehouse storing grain, said regional head Oleg Kiper.

Targeting 'civilian infrastructure'

"This past week, the Russians launched more than 2,200 attack drones against Ukraine, as well as around 1,650 aerial bombs and 38 missiles of various types, a significant number of them ballistic missiles," Zelenskyy posted Sunday on social media.