A Russian drone attack on a residential block killed nine people including three elderly couples in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy, officials said on Thursday. Moscow has pummelled Ukrainian cities with dozens of drones or missiles almost daily since it invaded in early 2022.

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The death toll from the Russian drone strike on a multi-story residential building in Sumy has risen to nine, Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said.

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A Russian drone attack on a residential block killed nine people including three elderly couples in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy, officials said on Thursday.

The Sumy Regional Prosecutor's Office announced this on Facebook, Ukrinform reports. “As of 11:00, four people were killed in an enemy attack on a high-rise building: two couples - a 74-year-old man and his 69-year-old wife, a 65-year-old man and his 64-year-old wife,” the report says.

The drone blew out a wall and surrounding windows in the building in Sumy, a major city, just after 1 a.m., the Sumy regional administration said.

Emergency teams continue to remove debris, conduct rescue operations at site, says State Emergency Service of Ukraine - Anadolu Ajansı

In Sumy, emergency rescue operations have been completed at the site of a Russian Shahed drone's strike on an apartment building. Nine people were killed and 13 more injured. — Ukrinform.

Russia attacked the city of Sumy. As a result of a drone strike on a residential building, people were injured, and the number of wounded has increased, according to the National Police of Ukraine’s Telegram channel.

Four people have been killed after Vladimir Putin’s troops launched a huge drone strike at Ukraine overnight, according to Kyiv authorities.A Iranian-made Russian Shahed drone blasted a hole in an apartment building in Sumy,