Russian troops shell Izium, injuring 12, including five children

Russian soldiers launched an attack on the city of Izium in the Kharkiv region using Tornado MLRS. Reports indicate that 12 people were injured, with one person being hospitalized.

Oleh Synehubov, the head of the regional military administration, reported this.

The Russian occupiers attacked Izium around 10:00 p.m. on August 27.

Among the injured are five children aged three, five, eight, 13 and 16. Four of them got an acute stress reaction.

As a result of the shelling, houses and a bakery were damaged.

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Early in the morning of August 26, Russian terrorists orchestrated a widespread assault on Ukraine using attack drones and cruise missiles. The sound of explosions shook the city of Kyiv. Reports confirm that blasts were heard in other areas as well, including Lutsk, Vinnytsia, Kropyvnytskyi, Kharkiv, Odesa, Kryvyi Rih, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Khmelnytskyi, the Chernihiv region, and Kyiv.

Fifteen Ukrainian regions were affected by enemy shelling this morning, resulting in damage to energy infrastructure facilities as targeted by Russian invaders.

A number of cities in Ukraine suffered power outages as a result of a major attack from the Russian Federation. Ukrenergo gave a directive to carry out urgent power cuts.

President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed that the August 26 assault by Russia on Ukraine was one of the largest to date. Russia launched a total of 127 missiles and 109 kamikaze drones within Ukrainian borders, but thanks to Ukraine's air defense forces, 102 enemy missiles and 99 unmanned aerial vehicles were successfully intercepted and destroyed.

In Ukraine, as a result of a massive air attack by Russian troops on August 26, seven people were killed, and another 47 citizens were injured and wounded, including four children.