KYIV, Ukraine (AP) 鈥� killed at least two people in , officials said Sunday, as the Ukrainian military struck a drone factory in southwestern .
A 鈥渕assive鈥� nighttime drone strike on Chernihiv in northern Ukraine killed a 16-year-old boy and wounded four others, according to the head of the city’s military administration.
Rescuers found the teenager鈥檚 body as they cleared away rubble, Dmytro Bryzhynskyi reported on Telegram on Sunday morning. He said the drone strike also wounded three women and one man. Several houses were set on fire, he added.
Russian drones also attacked the southern city of Kherson on Sunday, local officials reported.
A man died of his wounds after a drone hit a van driving through the city center, according to Oleksandr Prokudin, the head of the regional administration. A second man was hospitalized with blast injuries, regional authorities said.
Russia launched 236 drones into Ukrainian territory overnight into Sunday, Ukraine鈥檚 air force reported. Of those, 203 drones were shot down while 32 hit targets in 18 separate locations, it said.
Kyiv says it struck a Russian drone factory
Meanwhile, Ukraine hit a drone factory in the city of Taganrog, Ukraine鈥檚 General Staff reported. The site lies some 55 kilometers (35 miles) east of Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine in southwestern Russia.
According to the military, Ukrainian drones sparked a fire at the Atlant Aero factory, which designs and produces strike and reconnaissance drones, as well as components for more powerful UAVs that can carry guided bombs weighing up to 250 kilograms (550 pounds).
Ukraine鈥檚 navy said it carried out the attack on the drone factory in southern Russia, using domestically manufactured Neptune cruise missiles.
鈥淭his defense enterprise is an important part of the Russian military-industrial complex, where drones were developed and manufactured,鈥� the navy said in an online post.
It also posted images showing a huge cloud of smoke over the city, which it said was the impact of the strikes.
Three people were injured in a nighttime air attack on commercial infrastructure in Taganrog, according to the Russian regional governor, Yuri Slyusar. He did not specify what facility was hit, but said warehouses were set on fire following the strike.
Taganrog Mayor Svetlana Kambulova said the strike damaged 鈥渃ommercial enterprises鈥� in the city, as well as a vocational school and multiple cars.
Russia鈥檚 Defense Ministry said its forces shot down 274 Ukrainian drones during the night, as well as guided aerial bombs and a Neptune cruise missile. The ministry did not say how many struck targets.
Ukraine launches inquiry into mass shooting in the capital
Ukraine’s Interior Ministry on Sunday launched an official inquiry into that killed six people and wounded at least 14 others.
A gunman wielding an automatic weapon killed six people and barricaded himself inside a supermarket with hostages in the Ukrainian capital before he was shot and killed by police, authorities said.
Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko described the attacker鈥檚 mental state as 鈥渃learly unstable.鈥�
The 58-year-old gunman has not been named, but Ukrainian President on Saturday said he was born in Russia. Authorities worked to piece together a motive for the violence.
Several police officers were suspended for allegedly failing to respond appropriately in the initial stages of the shooting. Klymenko, the interior minister, described their behavior as 鈥渟hameful and unworthy鈥� of their role as police officers.
He said there was no plan to toughen gun ownership laws, arguing that guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens had helped the country鈥檚 defense against Russia.
The mass shooting 鈥� unheard of in wartime Kyiv following in 2022 鈥� took place in a busy central district of the city, outside an apartment block and a nearby shopping center, leaving bodies on a crowded street as bystanders fled for safety.
An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw victims鈥� bodies covered with emergency blankets before they were taken away.
Zelenskyy hits out at U.S. sanctions waiver for Russian oil
Elsewhere, Zelenskyy responded with dismay to the Trump administration’s decision on Friday to extend its on Russian oil shipments.
鈥淓very dollar paid for Russian oil is money for the war,鈥� Zelenskyy wrote in a post on X, arguing that any additional revenue the Kremlin gets from oil sales 鈥渋s directly converted into new strikes against Ukraine.”
鈥淭hat is why it is important that Russian tankers are stopped, not allowed to deliver oil to ports. The aggressor鈥檚 oil exports must decrease, and Ukraine鈥檚 long-range sanctions continue to work toward that goal,” he added.
The so-called , intended to ease , means U.S. sanctions will not apply for 30 days on deliveries of Russian oil that has been loaded on tankers as of Friday. It extended a 30-day license issued in March for Russian oil that had been loaded by March 11.
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