The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia presented over missiles and 123 drones in various regions on Saturday in an overnight attack.
The Ministry of Interior of Ukraine said that Russia had reached a residential construction in the city of Poltava, which is about 120 kilometers (almost 75 miles) from the Russian border.
Later, Ukrainian officials said another 11 people had been killed in Poltava.
The ministry posted pictures on Telegram that show the floors of the building smashed and smoke rising from it.
The interim governor of the Poltava region said that another 21 people had been rescued from the construction and the firefighters remained in the place. Other constructions were also damaged.
Ukrainian officials added that he had injured in the city of Zaporizhzhia in the southeast, the regions of Kharkiv and Sumy in the Northeast and Khmelnytskyi in the west.
Four people were reported killed in Kharkiv and Sumy.
“Last night, Russia attacked our cities using types of weapons: missiles, attack drones and aerial bombs,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, the addition of wounded was caused in six striated regions.
“Each of those terrorist attacks shows that we want to protect ourselves from Russian terrorism. Each air defense system, each weapon against Mass, saves lives,” he wrote in Telegram.
A Russian missile attack opposite the center of the port city of southern Ukraine, Odesa, a Unesco World Heritage site on Friday, also seriously broke several buildings.
The mayor of Odesa said on Saturday that the attack had the entrance, windows and internal of the Historical Philharmonic Room.
Meanwhile, Russia said it has captured the strategic city of Tretsk, in the Donetsk region, in eastern Ukraine, after large fights there for about two months.
The fall of the city comes after Russian forces took control of several towns and villages in the region in recent months.
Analysts claim that Moscow has progressed in Donetsk to their fastest rate since 2022, temporarily capturing more land that cross the weakened Ukrainian positions through the shortage of troops.
Edited by: Wesley Dockery
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