Separately, three people were killed and seven others wounded in a drone attack early on Saturday in the town of Bogodukhiv, the military head of the eastern Kharkiv region, Oleg Synegubov, said.
Russia fired two missiles and 145 drones at Bogodukhiv, Ukraine’s air force said.
“SHOCKING”
The latest air raids came after EU leaders, shaken by the prospect of US disengagement, agreed to boost the bloc’s defences.
Putin “has no interest in peace”, the European Union’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Saturday, adding that “we must step up our military support”.
In Dobropillia, AFP saw charred residential buildings, flattened market stalls and evidence of cluster bomb damage.
Irina Kostenko, 59, spent the night cowering in her hallway with her husband. When she left the apartment building on Saturday, she saw a neighbour “lying dead on the ground, covered with a blanket”.
“It was shocking, I don’t have the words to describe it,” Kostenko told AFP.
Moscow’s defence ministry on Saturday said its air defence systems destroyed 31 Ukrainian drones over the past night.
A Ukrainian drone attack also targeted Russia’s Kirishi oil refinery and falling debris caused damage to a reservoir, the governor of the northwestern Leningrad region, Aleksandr Drozdenko, said.
A civilian was wounded by a drone attack in Belgorod district near the Ukraine border, local governor Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on Telegram.
Source: CNA
