Russia has been striking Ukraine’s power grid and civilian areas as well as military targets, often using devastating glide bombs.
Six people were injured and 13 residential buildings were damaged after Russian forces dropped a 500-kg guided bomb on a residential area of Kostiantynivka, a city in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region.
Monday’s air strike damaged at least 13 high-rise residential buildings, breaking windows and shattering balconies. One building collapsed altogether.
Kostiantynivka, which is home to some 67,000 people, regularly finds itself under attack by Russian forces.
The strike comes as Ukraine’s allies once again step up their military assistance to Ukraine, whose army is struggling to fend off Russia’s renewed offensive in the northeastern Kharkiv region.
President Joe Biden has reportedly approved the dispatch of a second Patriot missile system to the Ukrainian armed forces, according to reports in American media.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pleaded for the additional Patriot system late last month, arguing that it will help his forces fight back against the 3,000-odd bombs that he said Russia launches into the country every month.
Zelenskyy said Ukraine needs two of the systems to protect Kharkiv, where Russia launched a cross-border offensive on May 10 that left Ukrainian troops reeling.
Russia has been striking Ukraine’s power grid and civilian areas as well as military targets, often using devastating glide bombs.
