Ukraine says civilian death toll rises after overnight Russian bombardments

By AFP and ToI Staff 8 March 2022, 9:31 am

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Illustrative -- A photograph taken on March 7, 2022 shows destruction following a shelling in Ukraine's second-biggest city of Kharkiv (Sergey BOBOK / AFP)

At least nine people, including two children, have died in an airstrike on the Ukrainian city of Sumy, some 350 kilometers east of Kiev, Ukrainian rescue services say.

“Enemy planes insidiously attacked apartment buildings” on Monday night, the rescue services say on Telegram after arriving on the scene at 11 pm.

Sumy, near the Russian border, has been the scene of heavy fighting for days.

According to the BBC, at least four civilians were additionally killed in Mykolaiv in the south of Ukraine, with a number of others injured.

Ukrainian authorities say there are also at least four dead in Kharkiv after Russian shelling started a fire in an apartment building, according to the British broadcaster.