War in Ukraine: Eight civilians killed in Russian strikes in four regions

Russian strikes have killed eight civilians in four regions of eastern and southern Ukraine, Ukrainian authorities announced on Friday.

According to local authorities, two people were killed on Friday in a strike in the border region of Sumy (northeast), opposite that of Kursk in Russia, where Ukraine has been leading an offensive of unprecedented scale for more than two weeks.

Four civilians were also injured in the same region, the Ukrainian police indicated on its website.

A little further east, two civilians died in a locality of the Kharkiv region, its governor Oleg Synegoubov announced on Telegram.

Five buildings hit

A another body was “removed from the rubble”, he said the same day, referring to an attack that took place earlier in the week on another locality.

“On August 22, one dead and eight wounded were added to the number of Russian victims in the Donetsk region”, , for his part, indicated on Friday Vadym Filachkin, the head of the Donetsk region, where Russian troops have been advancing continuously for months.

Finally, Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the Kherson region (south), announced the same day that “two people died and five others were injured” as a result of airstrikes on the city of Kherson and its environs.

These attacks damaged “five buildings” in “residential neighborhoods“, he said.