A Russian drone struck a cattle-breeding agricultural enterprise in the Konotop district of Sumy region on Saturday, Oct. 24, killing a 31-year-old female farm worker and injuring four other people, regional authorities reported.
Head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration Oleh Hryhorov confirmed that the victim was located at the epicenter of the blast when the drone struck the civilian facility. The woman would have turned 32 in several days, Hryhorov stated in an official dispatch.
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Medical responders evacuated the injured from the facility grounds, hospitalizing two victims whose injuries were preliminarily assessed as non-critical. The strike also killed and wounded livestock housed at the agricultural facility, prompting emergency veterinary and municipal civil defense units to deploy to contain the damage.
“The enemy struck a civilian cattle-breeding enterprise in Konotop district,” Hryhorov stated.
“Russia continues to strike civilian enterprises, destroy farms, and take the lives of people who were simply carrying out their work.”
Four wounded, including child, in Dnipropetrovsk drone strike
Concurrently on Saturday, Russian forces launched an aerial drone attack against the Pokrovske community in the Nikopol district of Dnipropetrovsk region, injuring four civilians, regional officials confirmed.
Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration Oleksandr Hanzha reported that the wounded included a 14-year-old boy. Emergency medical teams stabilized the boy at the scene before transferring him in critical condition to a regional pediatric hospital in Dnipro.
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A 46-year-old man was also hospitalized in serious condition, while medical personnel treated two other wounded adults. Emergency response detachments initiated structural inspections across surrounding residential neighborhoods to assess blast impacts and repair severed local utilities.
Daytime strikes follow fatal hits on warehouse and Zaporizhzhia
The Saturday daytime drone strikes across Sumy and Dnipropetrovsk regions followed separate missile bombardments targeting civilian infrastructure in northeastern and southern Ukraine earlier in the day.
In Kharkiv region, a Russian missile hit a commercial warehouse in the city of Lozova, killing a 45-year-old man and wounding two others aged 26 and 43. Emergency medical crews attempted resuscitation at the scene, but the victim died of severe blast trauma as specialized firefighting units worked to extinguish a fire that engulfed the storage facility.
Concurrently in Zaporizhzhia, Russian tactical strikes engaged an infrastructure installation, wounding two civilians and setting adjacent passenger vehicles ablaze.
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