Ten people were killed and dozens wounded in a Russian attack on two apartment blocks in Ternopil, western Ukraine, Ukraine’s Interior Minister Ihor Klimenko said.
Among the injured were 12 children, Klimenko said. It was one of the deadliest Russian airstrikes against western Ukraine since full-scale fighting began in February 2022, Klimenko said.
Two other western provinces, Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk, were attacked, while more than 30 people were injured in a drone strike targeting three districts in the northern city of Kharkiv. Photos posted online showed buildings and cars burning.
Ukraine’s Energy Ministry said the power outage was affecting several regions of the country.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the missiles fired by Russia struck more than 470 drones and 47 missiles, leaving “significant destruction.” He warned that people could be trapped under the rubble in Ternopil.
Elsewhere in western Ukraine, energy facilities, transport and civil infrastructure were also damaged.
The energy sector was attacked in the Ivano-Frankivsk region and two of the three injured were children.
The head of the Lviv region said energy facilities had been attacked.
Russia’s airstrikes came a day after Ukraine’s military announced that it had fired long-range Atax missiles supplied by the United States at military targets in Russia. This is the first time the Ukrainian military has acknowledged using Ataks on Russian soil.
Russia’s Defense Ministry accused Ukraine of firing four missiles at the southern city of Voronezh, but said they were all shot down by air defenses.
Meanwhile, Zelensky is heading to the Turkish capital, Ankara, to revive American efforts to end the war. US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkov is set to hold talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan amid reports that he is pursuing plans with Russian President Kirill Dmitriev.
The Kremlin said no Russian representative would participate in the Ankara talks.
Separately, Romania’s Defense Ministry said a Russian drone flew about 8 kilometers (5 miles) through Romanian airspace in the early hours of Wednesday. It was revealed that the drone returned to Romania via Ukraine and Moldova.
Romanian and German air force aircraft were scrambled in response to the raid, and the Defense Ministry said it was unclear where the drone had landed.
Poland also temporarily closed two airports in its southeastern region on Wednesday morning in response to airstrikes in western Ukraine.
As the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion approaches next February, Moscow and Kiev are fundamentally at odds over ways to end the war.
Earlier this month, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the terms of Russia’s peace deal had not changed since Putin proposed it in 2024.
