Ten people were killed and dozens more injured in a Russian attack on two apartment blocks in the western city of Ternopil, Ukraine’s Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko says.
Among the wounded were 12 children, Klymenko said, in one of the deadliest Russian attacks in western Ukraine since the full-scale war began in February 2022.
Two other western regions were hit, Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk, and a drone strike targeted three districts of the northern city of Kharkiv, wounding more than 30 people. Photos posted online showed buildings and cars on fire.
Power outages were affecting several regions of the country, Ukraine’s Energy Ministry said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia fired more than 470 drones and 47 missiles, leaving “significant destruction.” He warned that people could be trapped under rubble in Ternopil.
Energy facilities, transportation and civil infrastructure were damaged in other parts of western Ukraine.
The energy sector was attacked in the Ivano-Frankivsk region, where two of the three injured people were children.
The head of the Lviv region said that an energy facility was attacked.
The Russian strikes came a day after Ukraine’s military said it had fired longer-range Atacms missiles supplied by the United States at military targets inside Russia, the first time it has admitted to using the Atacms on Russian soil.
Russia’s Defense Ministry accused Ukraine of firing four of the missiles at the southern city of Voronezh, but said all had been shot down by air defenses.
Meanwhile, Zelensky is heading to the Turkish capital, Ankara, in an attempt to revive the US attempt to end the war. He will hold talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan amid reports that President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff has been working on a plan with his Russian counterpart Kirill Dmitriev.
The Kremlin said no Russian representative would join the talks in Ankara.
Separately, Romania’s Defense Ministry said a Russian drone had flown about 8 kilometers (5 miles) through its airspace in the early hours of Wednesday. The drone then crossed into Ukraine and Moldova before returning to Romania, he said.
Planes from the Romanian and German air forces were dispatched in response to the raid and the Defense Ministry said it was unclear where the drone had gone down.
Poland also deployed aircraft early Wednesday and temporarily closed two airports in the southeast in response to attacks in western Ukraine.
As the fourth anniversary of the start of the full-scale Russian invasion approaches next February, Moscow and kyiv remain fundamentally opposed in their views on how to end the war.
Earlier this month, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia’s conditions for a peace deal had not changed since Putin laid them out in 2024.
