Ukraine strike kills one, wounds 10 in Russian-occupied region: local official
The Hindu
Ukrainian drone strikes in occupied Zaporizhzhia kill one and injure ten, while Kharkiv faces further Russian attacks.
An overnight Ukrainian drone attack killed one person and injured around 10 others in the Russian-occupied southern Zaporizhzhia region, Moscow-installed authorities said Sunday (March 8, 2026).
A video posted on social media site VK overnight showed firefighters extinguishing a burning residential building that the drone reportedly hit.
“(There are) more than 10 injured people, and the body of a woman was found during the night,” Vasylivka municipality official Natalia Romanichenko told Russia’s state news agency TASS.
In Ukraine’s Kharkiv region in the northeast, a Russian strike on the village of Velyka Babka wounded three people, authorities said.
“Russian forces carried out a targeted strike on emergency services last night,” Ukraine’s emergency service said Sunday (March 8, 2026) on Telegram.
It said an initial drone strike set a house on fire and wounded three before a second Russian drone hit the fire engine sent to put out the blaze.
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