Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Russian attacks across Ukraine killed at least nine people overnight and wounded dozens, Kyiv said Tuesday, accusing Moscow of launching North Korean missiles in the raid.
Issued on: 11/08/2026 - 10:44
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The allegation comes after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned -- without providing evidence -- that Moscow was receiving more ballistic projectiles and troops from its ally Pyongyang.Russia has turned to North Korea for support throughout its four-and-a-half-year invasion.Earlier in the war, Pyongyang dispatched thousands of troops to help Russia fight back a Ukrainian counterattack into its western Kursk region.And intelligence from the West, Kyiv and Seoul, has long accused North Korea of supplying weapons to Russia.The southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia was worst hit in Russia's latest overnight barrage, with six people killed and 19 wounded, Zelensky said."The city was struck with North Korean ballistic missiles, Zircons, and guided aerial bombs. It was a vicious attack, calculated to inflict maximum damage specifically on civilian infrastructure," he said. Three more were killed by Russian drones and missiles in the neighbouring Dnipropetrovsk region, the local military administration said.In the capital Kyiv, Zelensky said an infectious diseases hospital was hit, while strikes on the frontlines cities of Kherson and Kharkiv caused power outages.A children's hospital in Kyiv was also hit, the health ministry said, posting photos of broken windows and debris in a courtyard."Children and medical staff were not harmed, as they were in a shelter at the time of the attack," the ministry said.Russia's defence ministry said its forces "delivered a group strike with high-precision ground-based weapons, hitting military-industrial enterprises and transport-logistics centres in the cities of Kyiv and Zaporizhzhia".Zelensky's N. Korea warning
