According to Ukrainian officials, a Russian missile and drone attack on two apartment buildings in the western city of Ternopil has killed at least 25 people, including three children.
The attack early on Wednesday was one of the worst in the area since Moscow began its full-scale invasion in February 2022, according to reports, and another 73 people were injured, including 15 children. Later, the Ukrainian air force reported that Russian X-101 cruise missiles had struck the residential apartments.
A drone attack on three districts of the northeastern city of Kharkiv injured over thirty persons, and the nearby areas of Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk were also affected. Online photos showed cars and structures on fire.
The Ukrainian air force claimed to have shot down 442 of 476 drones and 41 of 48 Russian missiles, including 10 missiles that were downed by F-16 and Mirage 2000 fighter jets that Kyiv received from its Western partners.
However, the air force begged for “the uninterrupted and timely supply of aviation weapons from Western partners” in reference to how overburdened Ukraine’s air defenses currently are.
Since the full-scale invasion, Ternopil, a city nearer the Polish border than Kyiv, the capital, has hardly ever been attacked. Missiles are seen streaking across the sky toward the city in social media footage of this attack. Still, there is almost any indication that air defenses are responding from the ground.
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