OCHA Ukraine Coordinator Denise Brown strongly condemned the Russian attack
Kiev, Ukraine:
Russian attacks on the frontline city of Kupiansk in northeastern Ukraine killed six people on Tuesday, regional officials said, increasing pressure on a region where Moscow’s forces have been on the offensive.
The updated toll in Kupiansk brought the total number of deaths in Ukraine that day to nine.
The attack in the northeastern region of Kharkiv, near the border with Russia, came after a swarm of attack drones destroyed warehouses and left people dead overnight in the western city of Lviv.
“The number of deaths has risen to six people. Four men and two women were killed in Kupiansk as a result of an enemy attack with a guided aerial bomb,” regional governor Oleg Synegubov said on social media.
“Emergency services continue to work at the scene of the explosion,” he added in a statement.
Russian forces captured parts of the Kharkov region early in the February 2022 invasion, but Ukrainian forces have since withdrawn.
In the southern city of Kherson, a police officer died when a trolley bus was hit and two passengers were injured, said Roman Mrochko, head of the government of the major southern city recaptured from the Russians last November.
One of the injured, a 57-year-old man, later died from his injuries.
The governor of the Lviv region in the west, 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) from the front line and close to Poland, had earlier announced that one person had been killed in a Russian drone strike overnight.
An AFP reporter in the area had heard the drones, followed by explosions.
Seven of the drones were shot down, but warehouses in Lviv were hit and a fire broke out, Governor Maksym Kozytsky said on Telegram.
The body of a 32-year-old man was found in the remains of a burnt-out building, while a 26-year-old was treated in hospital. A 68-year-old received medical care at the scene, the governor added.
A warehouse belonging to the non-governmental organization Caritas-Spes, which contained 300 tonnes of emergency supplies, was “completely burnt out”, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said.
OCHA Ukraine coordinator Denise Brown condemned the Russian attack.
“Attacks on humanitarian resources have intensified over the year, impacting those suffering the dire consequences of the war,” she said.
The Ukrainian military said 27 of 30 Iranian-made Shahed drones launched by Russia had been shot down.
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