Three dead and 13 injured in Russian bombing of Ukraine

May 10 (UPI) – Three people were killed and 13 wounded after Russia fired missiles, attack drones and artillery fire at targets in eastern and southeastern Ukraine, regional authorities said on Friday.

More than two dozen attacks on Thursday killed a 62-year-old man and a 65-year-old woman and wounded eight people, including two teenage girls, in Nikopol on the left bank of the Dnipro River, Dnipropetrovsk Governor Serhii Lysak said.

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Eight high-rise residential buildings, 25 private houses, a kindergarten, a fire station, a charity building, a bank, shops, and electricity and gas lines were damaged. At least a dozen cars were destroyed, including rescue vehicles and an ambulance.

A 51-year-old man was killed and a 49-year-old woman was injured in a shelling near a gas station in Kupiansk, 73 miles southeast of Kharkiv, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov reported in a social media post. According to Syniehubov, a 62-year-old woman was injured in a separate incident when the border village of Lyptsi, just 13 kilometers from Ukraine, came under fire from Russian forces.

The Kharkiv region prosecutor’s office said in an update that it had opened two criminal and war crimes investigations following the man’s death in hospital due to his injuries.

Kharkiv itself, Ukraine’s second-largest city, was hit by a long-range S-300 missile on Friday, injuring an 11-year-old child and a 72-year-old woman. Mayor Ihor Terekhov said the early morning attack leveled two houses and damaged another 24.

A woman was injured in Zaporizhzhia after the city was hit by a Russian multiple rocket launcher, the Zaporizhzhia regional military administration reported.

At least one person was injured in attacks in Donetsk province. Regional Governor Vadym Filashkin said the civilian victim was injured in Hostre, a village in Pokrovsk district less than six miles from the front line.

President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged on Thursday that Russian forces had the upper hand on the eastern front, but said Ukraine could halt its advance if arms shipments from its Western allies increased.

“With increased arms deliveries we will be able to stop them in the east. You have the initiative there now. That’s no secret. We have to stop them and take the initiative into our own hands. This is only possible if you hold something strong in your hands,” Zelensky said, pointing out that deliveries so far have been less than the amount decided by Congress on April 23.

At a joint press conference with European Parliament President Roberta Metsola in Kiev, Zelensky said Ukraine’s armed forces would do their job once they received the military resources they needed.

“Of course they (Russian forces) took advantage of this moment and increased their troops in the north, in the east and certainly everywhere. They reinforce something everywhere.”