Russian army strikes on several Ukrainian cities have killed dozens of civilians and left hundreds wounded in under a week.
The single deadliest attack of the war this year was in the city of Poltava in central Ukraine, where a Russian missile strike on a military educational facility on Tuesday killed 53 people and left more than 270 injured, according to the Ukrainian Emergencies Ministry.
Seven people, including a mother and her three daughters, were killed by Russian shelling in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Wednesday. More than 50 people were injured, with five adults in a serious condition.
Six people, including a baby, were killed and 97 were injured in Russian airstrikes on the city of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine last Friday.
The photographs show the aftermath of these strikes.
The aftermath of a Russian strike on a residential area in Lviv, 4 September 2024. Photo: Press Service of the National Police of Ukraine / EPA-EFE
Rescuers work at the site of a Russian airstrike on a residential building in Lviv, 4 September 2024. Photo: Roman Baluk / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA
Commenting on the death of a mother and her three daughters, Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said on Telegram on Wednesday that “in the centre of Europe, Russia exterminates whole families of Ukrainians. Russians are killing our children, our future”.
Lviv resident Yaroslav after his rescue from a residential building damaged by a Russian drone and missile strike on 4 September 2024. Photo: Roman Baluk / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA
The Russian Defence Ministry confirmed the strikes on Poltava on Wednesday, stating that the Russian army had “delivered a high-precision strike on the … Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the city of Poltava, where … various AFU units, and unmanned aerial vehicles operators involved in attacks on civilian targets, were being trained”.
In a post on X on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky quantified the scale of Russia’s recent strikes on Ukraine.
“Just in the past week, Russia has launched over 160 missiles of various types, 780 guided aerial bombs, and 400 strike UAVs of different kinds against our people,” he said.
Firefighters at the site of a missile strike on Poltava, 4 September 2024. Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine
General view of a residential building damaged by a Russian airstrike in Kharkiv, 30 August 2024. Photo: Vitaliy Hnidyi / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA
The aftermath of a Russian airstrike on a shopping mall in Kharkiv, 1 September 2024. Photo: Vitaliy Hnidyi / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA
A man falls from the window of a burning apartment after a Russian guided bomb hit Kharkiv, 30 August 2024. Photo: Andriy Marienko / AP Photo / Scanpix / LETA
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