Three people were killed, including a railway worker in the city of Lozova in the Jharkiv region, and at least another twelve were injured in Russian strikes in the northeast of Ukraine, local authorities announced on Friday, August 1.
An attack remarkably affected the rail infrastructure, including the Lozova station, killing a mechanic and wounding four other rail workers, said the national railway company of Ucrzaliznytsia.
The buildings and residential areas have also been affected, said Mayor Sergiï Zelensky. AFP journalists have noticed destruction along the railroad tracks, including damaged cars and buildings with blown windows.
The Ukraine Air Force said that its aerial defense had demolished 29 Geran-2 attack drones, inspired by the Iranian Shahed, in the north and east of the country during the night from Monday to Tuesday.
“Rescue operations”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reacted in the process on social networks by presenting his condolences to the family of the rail worker who killed and specifying that the total “another ten people were injured” in Lozova, including “two children.”
On Tuesday morning, a Russian attack left two dead and several injured near the city of Soumy, capital of the homonymous border region of Russia, in the northeast of the country.
“Around 10 am, the enemy attacked Pichtchane,” said the governor of the region, Oleh Grygorov, in Telegram.
The strike affected “an agricultural business,” according to the latter, adding that “research and rescue operations are underway.” The Russian army withdrew 6,297 long -range drones against Ukraine in July, a record from the beginning of the invasion in February 2022, according to an AFP count based on figures provided by the Ukrainian authorities.
Volodymyr Zelensky also asked its international partners to “intensify the pressure” about the profits of Russian oil. “The world now sees that sanctions against Russia, and secondary sanctions against all who help take advantage of oil, can work if they are strong enough,” he explained, increasing “impatient and decisive measures with impatience.”
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, threatened to “significantly” increase his surcharge in Moscow to “Moscow, if he continues to buy Russian oil in” large quantity “, while Washington imposed an ultimatum in Moscow in Moscow to end the war in Ukraine, under penalty of new sanctions.
Source: BFM TV
