Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia sends around 220 guided aerial bombs (KABs) every day against areas near the front line.
Zelenskyy said Russia’s defense industry continues to produce and develop these bombs despite sanctions. He called for increased pressure on supply chains for foreign components and on Russian companies involved in weapons production.
Three people killed on the night of August 14
In the attacks on the night of August 14, a section of an apartment building in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, between the first and sixth floors collapsed. Zelenskyy said one person was killed and 16 were injured there.
A Shahed-type unmanned aerial vehicle struck a house in Stepanovka, in the Sumy region. Two people were killed, one of them a child.
In the city of Smila in the Cherkasy region, an unmanned aerial vehicle also struck a nine-story apartment building. Fires broke out on several floors of the building, and five people were injured.
Attacks spread across nine regions
Zelenskyy said Russian forces also targeted the Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa, Kharkiv, Zhytomyr, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv and Chernihiv regions that same night.
Zelenskyy said people, including children, were injured in the attacks and that apartment buildings, detached houses and infrastructure facilities were damaged. He added that medical assistance had been provided to the injured.