The death toll from yesterday's Russian strike on the Ukrainian city of Kupyansk has risen to eight people, authorities have said, after Ukrainian rescuers found another two bodies in the rubble.
Kupyansk is less than 10km from the frontline in Ukraine's north-eastern Kharkiv region, where Moscow has made some gains in recent months.
"Unfortunately, the bodies of two more dead civilian men were found," Kharkiv governor Oleg Synegubov said on Telegram this morning.
That brought the death toll in yesterday’s strike to eight people, he said: "Six men and two women, including two volunteers who were evacuating people."
Russian forces struck the city with a Grom missile, he said, posting a photo of what appeared to be a burnt-out car.
Ukraine in August called on people living near Kupyansk to evacuate as Russian forces made advances in the area.
Moscow captured swathes of the Kharkiv region early in their invasion in February 2022, but Ukrainian troops have since pushed back.
Earlier this morning, Russia struck the Kremenchuk oil refinery in the central Poltava region of Ukraine in an overnight drone attack causing a fire, Governor Dmytro Lunin has said.
Refinery operations have been temporarily stopped, he said on the Telegram messaging app, adding that there was no information about casualties.
"Last night, Russians repeatedly attacked Poltava region. Our air defence system did a good job against enemy UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles)," he said.
The refinery has been attacked repeatedly by Russia since it invaded Ukraine last year.
Ukraine's air defence systems shot down 17 out of 24 drones that Russia launched on Ukraine overnight, the military said.
These reports could not be immediately independently verified.
