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Four killed, several injured in drone strike on Ukraine's Sumy region
DPAFri, July 3, 2026 at 6:34 AM UTC1 min readFILE PHOTO - Hole in the roof of a residential building in Sumy after being hit by a Russian drone. (is associated with: «Four killed, several injured in drone strike on Ukraine's Sumy region») Francisco Richart/ZUMA Press Wire/dpaA drone strike on the town of Romny in Ukraine's north-eastern Sumy region killed four people, local authorities said on Friday.The regional military administration chief, Oleh Hryhorov, said on Telegram that Russian forces hit a residential apartment building. The victims included an elderly man, two women and a girl under the age of 2. Three other people were injured.In a separate attack, a missile strike on the city of Kryvyi Rih in the Dnipropetrovsk region injured seven people, local officials said.Two of the injured women remained in hospital, the city's defence council head, Oleksandr Vilkul, said on Telegram. He added that nine apartment blocks, a school building, a company, several shops, garages and around 10 vehicles were damaged. Two residential buildings were cut off from the gas supply.The strikes came a night after a major combined air attack on the capital Kiev, which has killed at least 30 people, according to authorities.Kryvyi Rih, the birthplace of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and a major industrial centre, has been repeatedly targeted during the war.