
On the afternoon of May 4, Russian troops launched a missile attack on the town of Merefa in the Kharkov region, local authorities reported. According to the head of the Kharkov regional military administration Oleg Sinegubov, private and apartment buildings, four shops and a service station were damaged.
There are dead. According to the latest data, their number has reached six. Another 23 people were injured.
In the Novgorod-Seversky district of the Chernigov region of Ukraine, 14 thousand people were left without power supply after the Russian attack, Chernigovoblenergo reported . The head of the Novgorod-Seversk administration, Alexander Seliverstov, said that at night the Russian military fired at the city several times with FPV drones and attack drones, and civilian infrastructure was damaged. One person was injured.
Power outages were reported after the Russian attacks in a number of other regions of Ukraine, in particular the Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov and Kherson regions.
In the Chuguevsky district of the Kharkov region, a Russian drone fell near a van that was used to transport bakery products, the regional prosecutor's office reported. Two people were injured - the driver and the forwarder.
In total, according to the telegram channel "Ashes", five people were injured from Russian shelling in the Kharkov region over the past 24 hours.
In the city of Shostka, Sumy region, multi-storey residential buildings and non-residential premises were damaged as a result of a Russian attack, the State Service of Ukraine for Emergency Situations reported .
In the Ship district of Kherson, according to local authorities, a man and a woman were injured as a result of shelling. They received blast injuries and concussions, and the man also suffered a facial injury. Several drones hit a multi-storey building in the center of Kherson, damaging walls, ceilings and windows in residents’ apartments.
In total, as reported by the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Russian troops launched 155 attack drones across Ukraine on the night of May 4, of which 135 were neutralized. There is no independent data.
Radio Liberty news release:
In the Kharkov region there are dead after a rocket attack