Ukrainian military said Russia launched 81 drones overnight, 37 of which were shot down. At least four people have been killed and nine injured, including a child, in a drone attack on an apartment building in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy.

Ukrainian officials said Thursday a Russian drone attack killed at least four people in the northeastern city of Sumy. The regional state administration in Sumy said a drone hit a high-rise residential building, and that the attack also injured nine people.

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At least 14 Ukrainians died, including two children, and 17 others injured in a Russian strike on a residential building, Ukraine's nation's emergency services reported.

A Russian drone struck a multi-storey apartment building in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy early on Thursday, killing nine people and injuring 13, including a child, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.

Officials say a Russian drone has blasted a hole in an apartment building in northeastern Ukraine during a nighttime attack that killed at least six people and wounded nine others.

An 18-year-old British volunteer fighting for Ukraine was killed by a Russian drone just minutes into his first frontline mission, The Sun has reported. James Wilton, from Huddersfield, had no prior military experience and travelled to Ukraine aged 17 to join the fight against Russian forces.