Killed at least 2 after Russia bombed five regions of Ukraine with rockets, drones

May 1st (Upi) – Russia started air strikes against five Ukrainian regions in the east, in the southwest and in the center of the country overnight and started balllist rockets and more than 100 drones, in which at least two people were killed and more injured.

“While Ukraine is progressing in international front, the Russians continue to bomb our civilian population at home,” wrote the deputy prime minister and Minister of Economics Yulia Svyrydenko on X Thursday morning in a post, hours after the conclusion of a milestone contract to share the mineral resources of Ukraine with the United States.

“Last night Russia attacked Ukraine with 5 ballistic rockets and 170 drones. Among the goals, our historic coastal city of Odessa was killed with 2 people and 15 injured.

Odessa Governor Oleh Kiper informed pictures in the telegram that had extensively damaged a large apartment building in the most important Black Sea harbor, which emergency staff had in detail with large fires and broken shop fronts.

Kyiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Donetsk were also targeted.

The mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, said on his telegram report that an older woman was admitted to the hospital on Thursday morning after being caught in one of the explosion of ammunition explosions for delayed action in the southeastern part of the capital.

“The explosive part of the depressed drone started with a delay. An older woman, a resident of the Dartytskyi district, was injured,” he wrote.

Tymur Tkachenkov, head of the military administration of Kyiv City, said that the explosion was under 10 non -identified detonations that were examined in the region as possible ammunition.

In an update on social media, the reigning Kyiv -GouVerneer Mykola Kalashhnyk said that three areas of the city, including the Boryspil district, were hit with 12 private houses overnight and a business that was mainly damaged by fires was inflamed by falling debris from air defense.

Rural districts in the surrounding region were also targeted.

“Another overnight attack by the Russian UAVS on Kyiv Oblast. Air defense systems were active in the region. Several air goals were shot down. There are no civilian victims,” ​​said Kalashhnyk //

“Residents whose property was damaged are made all the necessary support. We are already working together with the local authorities and our international partners.”

At least eight explosions were heard in the eastern city of Sumy after “Shahed” type drone in the direction of the Ukrainian Air Force in the direction of the regional capital.

The incumbent mayor Artem Kobzar said that an industrial complex was badly damaged, but that no victims were reported.

Four explosions were reported in Kharkiv in the northwest of the city.

“Early reports indicate that the enemy met the Kyivskyi district in Kharkiv with a molniya uav,” said Kharkiv Governor Oleh Syniehubov in his social media account.

Previous reports said that a petrol station had been set in flames late Wednesday after being hit by a drone.

Production equipment, raw materials and cars were also damaged in a drone attack that lit a large fire in an industrial and warehouse complex in Vasyshcheve, 12 miles south of Kharkiv.

The Luftwaffe said that it took 74 out of a total of 170 drones or started overnight.

The attacks came when Svyrydenko and US Finance Minister Scott Bessent signed a long-earth agreement on the parts of the resources of Ukraine, in particular its deposits of so-called “rare earths” and the establishment of a joint investment reconstruction fund in exchange for continued US military and other support.

The breakthrough came on the 101st day of the administration of US President Donald Trump, who undertaken to put an end to the Russia Ukraine War, with the minerals handling a central plank of his plan.

Svyrydenko traveled to Washington to Washington three days after Trump had held a single private meeting with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the late Pope of the late Pope Francis on the vernish of the late Pope Francis. Later the couple were created in a corner in a corner of the St. Peter Basilica.