Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities kill 10, wound dozens

Russian strikes across three major Ukrainian cities killed at least 16 people and wounded 125, as the toll from the Dnipro attack kept climbing while rescue crews searched a destroyed four-story building. At least two of the dead were children, and the day’s violence spread beyond a single front-line sector into city streets, schools and public buildings.

Dnipro took the heaviest blow. Oleksandr Hanzha, the regional governor, said the initial missile strike killed six people and wounded 29, and that a business, a school, private homes and cars were all hit. Later counts rose to 11 dead as responders recovered more bodies from the wreckage and widened the search through the damaged block.

The attacks did not stop at Dnipro. In Zaporizhzhia, drones damaged the regional administration building and public transport, while Kharkiv was struck by a guided aerial bomb.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia launched a missile strike on Dnipro targeting infrastructure and said rescue operations were underway. In his nightly address, he vowed a response and called the strikes a “transparent statement” that they would continue unless Ukraine had stronger protection from ballistic and other missiles. He urged Europe to move faster on its own anti-ballistic defense systems and missiles.