Ukrainian emergency workers assess the site of a Russian missile strike on a market in Kyiv on Thursday. Photo by Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA
July 30 (UPI) -- At least eight people were killed and 50 injured overnight in Ukraine in a major Russian airborne assault targeting Dnipropetrovsk province, Kyiv and the western city of Lviv that spilled over into neighboring Poland.
Ukraine's Ministry of Internal Affairs said in an update on Telegram on Thursday that a family of six, including three children, were killed and eight other family members were injured in a direct missile strike on their home just outside Kryvyi Rih.
One person was killed and two were injured in Kyiv and five members of a single family were injured in another attack in Brovary, just beyond the city limits of the capital. The eighth fatality was in Poltava province after a warehouse was hit, the State Emergency Service said.
The strike on the facility took place in the city of Poltava, 190 miles southeast of Kyiv, according to Poltava Regional Military Administration head Vitalii Diakivnych.
