At least 14 killed, dozens wounded in Russian strikes on Ukraine, Kyiv says

Thomson Reuters

· Posted: Mar 08, 2025 7:33 AM EST | Last Updated: 15 minutes ago

At slightest 14 radical were killed and 37 wounded, including 5 children, successful Russian rocket and drone attacks connected Ukraine's eastbound metropolis of Dobropillia and a colony successful Kharkiv portion overnight, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said connected Saturday.

Russian forces attacked Dobropillia with ballistic missiles, aggregate rockets, and drones, causing harm to 8 multi-storey buildings and 30 vehicles, according to the ministry. The battle resulted successful the deaths of 11 people, including 5 children, and near 30 others wounded.

The ministry besides reported that 3 civilians were killed and 7 wounded successful a abstracted drone onslaught connected the Kharkiv portion successful the northeast.

"Such strikes amusement that Russia's objectives person not changed. Therefore, it is important to proceed to bash our champion to support lives, fortify our aerial defences, and summation sanctions against Russia. Everything that helps Putin concern the warfare indispensable collapse," President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said connected Facebook.

On Friday, Russian forces damaged Ukrainian vigor and state infrastructure successful their archetypal large rocket onslaught since the U.S. paused quality sharing with Ukraine, piling unit connected Kyiv arsenic U.S. President Donald Trump seeks a swift extremity to the war.

The intermission successful U.S. subject assistance and quality whitethorn undermine Ukraine's aerial defences arsenic it runs debased connected precocious missiles and struggles to way attacks arsenic effectively, subject analysts say.

Dobropillia, location to astir 28,000 radical earlier the war, is successful the Donetsk portion of eastbound Ukraine, 22 kilometres from the beforehand enactment northbound of the cardinal hub of Pokrovsk, which the Russian troops person been attacking for weeks.

Amid U.S. efforts to beryllium Kyiv and Moscow astatine the negotiating table, the sides proceed to prosecute successful progressive hostilities successful an effort to summation an advantage.

A vessel astatine Surgutneftegaz's Kirishi lipid refinery, 1 of Russia's largest, was damaged by falling debris during a large Ukrainian overnight drone attack, section authoritative said.

Russian forces, for their part, person successful caller weeks stepped up efforts to eject Ukrainian troops from Kursk, erstwhile Kyiv's forces staged a lightning incursion implicit the borderline and seized a swath of Russian territory successful past August.

The Russian Defence Ministry said connected Saturday its troops retook 3 villages successful the Kursk portion from Ukrainian forces.

Reuters could not independently corroborate the battlefield report.