Russian Drones Hit a Hotel and an Apartment Block in Kremenchuk, Injuring Seven
Russian strike drones hit the city of Kremenchuk in Ukraine's Poltava region on the evening of November 8, setting fire to a municipal hotel and a multi-storey residential building and damaging a private commercial and industrial enterprise in the city's suburbs, Ukraine's State Emergency Service reported on November 9. Rescue crews evacuated 15 people from the damaged structures, and seven civilians, including a 16-year-old boy who was seriously injured and hospitalised, were hurt.
Ukrainian media reported that the same evening's attack also destroyed the city's Kolibri Centre, which had supported children with special educational needs for nine years; its founder said its classrooms and rehabilitation equipment were completely destroyed. Poltava regional military administrator Vitali Dyakivnych said the strikes also hit a densely populated residential district.
The attack was part of a nationwide overnight assault in which Ukraine said Russia launched 317 strike drones. It was the second major strike on residential areas of Kremenchuk in recent weeks: on October 29 a Russian drone hit a high-rise residential building in the city, killing three civilians and injuring 15.
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(Source: State Emergency Service of Ukraine)
Source: State Emergency Service of Ukraine
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Photo: 图：乌克兰 Poltava 州 Kremenchuk 市的第聂伯河畔（资料图，非事发现场）。照片：CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The Dnipro riverbank in Kremenchuk, Poltava region, Ukraine (file photo, not the scene of the strike). Photo CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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