ISTANBUL

Ukraine said on Wednesday at least 14 people were injured in an overnight Russian drone strike in the northeastern Sumy region.

“Last night, a drone strike on Okhtyrka in the Sumy region injured 14 people. A family with wounded children – 5 months, 4 years, and 6 years old – sought assistance after the attack,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on US social media company X.

He said a glide bomb strike damaged five apartment buildings in the city of Kostiantynivka in the eastern Donetsk region.

Noting at least three people still remain under the rubble, Zelenskyy said rescue operation in the key industrial city continued.

“There was also a treacherous strike on a gas distribution station in the Odesa region. Shelling also targeted the Chernihiv, Kharkiv, and Poltava regions,” Zelenskyy said, claiming more than 60 drones and a ballistic missile were used in the overnight strikes.

“All of these are demonstrative strikes that only confirm the need to put pressure on Moscow, the need to impose new sanctions and tariffs until diplomacy is fully effective,” the Ukrainian president argued.

He added that Ukraine needs strong security guarantees to ensure a “truly reliable and lasting peace.”

Ukraine’s air force separately claimed air defenses shot down 62 out of 93 drones, as well as one out of two Iskander-M ballistic missiles, launched by Russia.

Earlier, Odesa Governor Oleh Kiper said on Telegram that “infrastructure and production facilities” were damaged in the city of Izmail, on Ukraine’s border with Romania, in a Russian drone attack.

Russian authorities did not immediately comment on the strikes.

The reports come amid intense diplomatic efforts by US President Donald Trump to mediate a settlement for the nearly three-and-a-half-year long Russia-Ukraine war.