Key facts
- Seven people, including two children, died in Russian missile and drone attacks across Ukraine.
- In the Dnipropetrovsk region, six people were killed and 10 wounded in a mass attack that damaged civilian infrastructure.
- A 6-year-old girl and boys aged 11 and 17 were among the children killed in the Kryvyi Rih area.
- In Lviv, 30 people were injured in a missile attack that damaged residential buildings, a school, and kindergartens.
- In Kyiv, a 31-year-old man was killed and two others wounded by ballistic missiles.
- Poland mobilised military aircraft as a preventative measure following the attacks.
Russian attacks across Ukraine overnight into Thursday killed at least seven people and wounded dozens of others, officials said. The heaviest casualties were reported in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk and western Lviv regions. These attacks are the latest in a series of large-scale Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities that Russia has intensified over the summer, occurring on a nearly weekly basis. In the Dnipropetrovsk region, Russian forces carried out a mass attack that killed six people and wounded 10, damaging or destroying civilian infrastructure. Children were among the dead, including a 6-year-old girl and boys aged 11 and 17 in the Kryvyi Rih area. In Lviv, the number of people injured in a Russian missile attack rose to 30 as a rescue operation continued. The city was struck at about 4:45 a.m., with the worst damage to two residential buildings. More than 20 residential buildings were damaged, along with a school and two kindergartens, with children among those injured, including one who was hospitalized. In the Kyiv region, five people were wounded in the Brovary district, including a minor and two women. In Kyiv, Russian forces struck the capital with ballistic missiles, killing a 31-year-old man and wounding two others. Residential buildings, a market, a garage cooperative, storage facilities and vehicles were damaged in the city.