Russian attacks kill 3, including child, in east Ukraine

Russian bombardments left three people dead overnight in the eastern Ukrainian region of Sumy where Moscow has stepped up aerial attacks in recent months, officials said Tuesday.

Sumy lies across the border from Kursk in Russia, where Ukrainian troops launched a major offensive in August and have been holding swathes of territory.

“Three people, including one child, died as a result of a nighttime attack by enemy drones on residential buildings,” regional authorities said, referring to the city of Sumy.

They said more than two dozen Iranian-designed attack drones were downed over the region. The air force said 60 in total had been detected in Ukrainian airspace and 42 were destroyed.

Sumy, which borders Russia, has been under persistent bombardment since the beginning of the war, when Russian forces briefly captured sectors of the industrial territory before being pushed back.

The Ukrainian operation in Kursk is part of a broader roadmap to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine recently outlined by President Volodymyr Zelensky. (BSS/AFP)