(Reuters) – A Russian missile attack on the outskirts of the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy on Tuesday killed three people, including a 6-year-old child, and injured eight others, regional officials said.
The military administration in the border region, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said four of the injured were children, with two of them in serious condition in hospital.
The early evening strike targeted civilian infrastructure in the city’s suburbs, the administration said.
Russian attacks have intensified in the region in recent weeks, including a missile strike on Sumy on Palm Sunday last month which killed 35 people.
Officials began evacuating residents from border villages on Monday after an upsurge in military action on both sides of the border and Russian shelling of settlements.
Russian war bloggers on Monday said Ukrainian forces had launched a new incursion into Russia’s adjacent Kursk region.
(Reporting by Yuliia Dysa and Ron Popeski; Editing by Alex Richardson and Leslie Adler)
