Rescue operations end in Sumy with 9 killed, 13 injured after Russian drone attack on residential building ・Sweden unveils its largest military aid package for Ukraine worth $1.2 billion ・Lithuania open to sending peacekeepers to Ukraine,

A Russian drone struck a multi-storey apartment building in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy early on Thursday, killing nine people and injuring 13, including a child, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.

Ukraine’s Defense Forces downed 37 drones Russian invaders had launched at Ukraine since Wednesday night. Another 39 drones serving as decoys to exhaust Ukraine’s air defenses eventually disappeared from radar.