Russian Missile Attack Convolutes To Ukraine, One Person Dies In Poltava

ILLUSTRATION/DOK/Condition of Ukrainian territory following the Russian/Emergency Service of Ukraine attack, Yakiv Liashenko, Patryk Jaracz via Instagram

JAKARTA - Russian missile attacks in the Ukrainian Poltava region killed one person and injured three others.

"For the third day in a row, Russia attacks the Poltava area," said regional governor Filip Pronin on Telegram.

"One person is in a bad condition," he added.

The Ukrainian air force said it shot down a Russian missile, identified as a type of kiosk-59/69, in the region. But the debris damaged schools and kindergartens, according to Pronin.

Russian missile and drone attacks also occurred in the city of Dnipro in Ukraine. This attack killed four civilians and injured 27 others.

Attacks also damaged kindergartens, schools, and hospitals and caused fires.

"This morning was not good for us. The enemy has launched a joint attack on our city," Serhiy Lysak, governor of the area around Dnipropximsk, said in a video posted on the Telegram messaging app reported by Reuters, Wednesday, July 3.

Eleven injured people have been taken to hospital and two are in serious condition.

While in Kharkiv, one person was killed and four others injured.

Kharkiv district prosecutors said one person was killed and two others injured in an attack on the village of Borova which also damaged 10 houses, shops, and administrative buildings.

In the village of Ruska Lozova, two people were injured and 10 houses were damaged in the attack, Wednesday, July 3, early in the morning with two S-400 missiles, reported by Reuters.