Russian strikes kill eight, injure dozens across Ukraine

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy says Moscow launched nearly 4,000 drones, aerial bombs and missiles against his country in past week.A Russian military strike on northeastern Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, has injured at least 22 people, including children, less than a day after eight people were killed in attacks nationwide.Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekov said on his Telegram account that a guided Russian aerial bomb hit an apartment block early on Monday, destroying two floors of the multistorey building.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3German, Russian foreign ministers hold rare talks amid rising tensionslist 2 of 3Russia scales up strikes on Ukraine as largest steelmaker halts operationslist 3 of 3Poland boosts air defence after ‘Russian provocations’ amid Ukraine warend of listHe said six children were among the injured.Russian attacks were also reported across Ukraine on Sunday.Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs Ivan Vyhivskyi said three people, including a 16-year-old girl, were killed in air strikes that damaged a children’s centre in the northern city of Sumy.Authorities in the Odesa region, meanwhile, said a “massive strike” on the south of the Black Sea region killed one person and damaged residential buildings, a shop, a hotel, a medical building, and a grain warehouse.And in the capital, Kyiv, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a woman and two 16-year-olds were injured and hospitalised.“The enemy continues to relentlessly attack the Kyiv region with strike drones,” the city’s administration said.“Sixteen sites have been damaged”, including 12 houses, a warehouse and a production facility, it added.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday that three people were killed in strikes in the southern Zaporizhia region and that a Russian drone strike had killed one man in Kyiv.Zelenskyy said in a post on his X account that Russia had launched more than 2,200 attack drones, 1,630 aerial bombs and 38 missiles of various types against Ukraine in the past week.