Russian strikes across eastern Ukraine leave four dead

25 May 2026 • 11:20 PM MYT
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Russian attacks have killed at least four people in eastern Ukraine, injuring dozens more and damaging civilian infrastructure, regional officials said on Monday.

Oleh Syniehubov, military governor of the Kharkiv region, said a 25-year-old man and a 68-year-old man were killed in a rocket attack on the town of Derhachi. Another 23 people were injured, while a civilian business, storage facilities and vehicles were damaged, he said.

Further south, a 64-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman were killed after Russian forces shelled the city of Kramatorsk and the nearby settlement of Yasnohirka, prosecutors in the Donetsk region said. Three other people were reportedly injured.

Ukraine has been defending itself against a full-scale Russian invasion for more than four years.

Meanwhile, four people were killed in a Ukrainian attack in Horlivka, in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, according to the Russian occupation administration.

Over the weekend, Russia launched a large-scale assault on the Ukrainian capital that Tymur Tkachenko, head of Kiev's military administration, described as the biggest attack since the start of the invasion in terms of the number of locations damaged.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on social media that over 80 people had been confirmed injured.