MATERNITY WARD “SEVERELY DAMAGED”
The strikes targeted at least six Ukrainian regions including Kharkiv in the northeast, Lviv in the west, Dnipro in the east and Odesa in the south.
In Dnipro, a maternity hospital was “severely damaged” but staff and patients managed to shelter in time, the health ministry said.
There were 12 women in labour and four newborns inside when it was struck, governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Sergiy Lysak, said on Friday.
Lysak also reported six killed and 28 wounded in strikes on a shopping mall, private houses and administrative buildings.
Kharkiv faced around 20 strikes, which killed three employees at a civilian enterprise and wounded 11, governor Oleg Synegubov said on Friday.
In Zaporizhzhia, on the shores of the Dnipro river, governor Yuriy Malashko reported seven dead and 13 wounded according to a Friday toll.
In the Odesa region, which has seen renewed attacks since the summer, four people were killed.
Strikes over Lviv in western Ukraine are much more rare, but the region was not spared on Friday.
One person was killed and 15 wounded as blocks of flats and two schools were damaged, the interior ministry said.
Separately, local Russian officials said Saturday at least four people including three children were killed by Ukrainian strikes in the border regions of Belgorod and Bryansk over the past 24 hours.
Belgorod is about 30km from the border with Ukraine and has been repeatedly targeted by what Russia says is indiscriminate shelling by Kyiv’s forces.
Source: CNA
