(Reuters) – According to local Ukrainian officials, Russian shells hit a residential building and private houses on Tuesday, resulting in the deaths of four people and at least five people being injured.
The southern town of Nikopol saw a five-story building being struck in the morning, as stated by Dnipropetrovsk region governor Serhiy Lysak. “A 63-year-old man was killed. Two women, aged 65 and 63, were injured. There may be people under the rubble,” he said on Telegram messenger.
On the same day, another attack took place in the afternoon as Russian shelling destroyed at least five private houses in a northern settlement near the border with Russia, according to Sumy regional prosecutors. Two bodies have been recovered from the rubble, and a 7-year-old girl died in hospital after a car she was in came under fire. Three people have been injured, according to the prosecutors’ statement on Telegram.
Despite the frequent air strikes that have resulted in the deaths of civilians, Russia has denied intentionally targeting civilians.
(Reporting by Yuliia Dysa; Editing by Alexandra Hudson)
