Kyiv launches fresh drone assault on Putin's oil refineries inside Russia - Volgograd governor Andrei Bocharov says a fire temporarily broke out after a Ukrainian drone attack

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine expressed condolences to family and friends of those killed in a Russian strike that targeted an apartment block in Sumy, and stressed the importance of continued international pressure on Russia over such terror.

The death toll from the Russian drone strike on a multi-story residential building in Sumy has risen to nine, Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said.

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Russian forces have captured hundreds of square miles of eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region over the past year as part of their advance on the city of Pokrovsk.

Ukrainian officials said Thursday a Russian drone attack killed at least four people in the northeastern city of Sumy. The regional state administration in Sumy said a drone hit a high-rise residential building, and that the attack also injured nine people.

The Sumy Regional Prosecutor's Office announced this on Facebook, Ukrinform reports. “As of 11:00, four people were killed in an enemy attack on a high-rise building: two couples - a 74-year-old man and his 69-year-old wife, a 65-year-old man and his 64-year-old wife,” the report says.

Emergency teams continue to remove debris, conduct rescue operations at site, says State Emergency Service of Ukraine - Anadolu Ajansı

A Russian drone strike on a residential building in Sumy, Ukraine, resulted in nine deaths and injured 13, including a child. The attack, part of a broader overnight offensive, damaged businesses and homes across Ukraine.

A Russian drone strike tore through an apartment building in northeastern Ukraine overnight, killing at least four people and injuring nine

Here are the key developments on the 1,072nd day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Here is the situation on Friday, January 31: