Russian strikes kill three in Ukraine border region

Russian strikes on the Ukrainian border region of Sumy overnight killed three people who were pulled from the rubble of a two-story residential building, prosecutors said Friday.

They said Moscow’s forces had struck the village of Miropillia shortly before midnight in Sumy, which lies just across the border from Russia and has been coming under increasing fatal bombardments.

“As a result of the enemy attack, three people were killed - their bodies were recovered from the rubble,” the office of the prosecutor general wrote on social media.

The attack ripped a hole dividing two sections of a Soviet-era building, official images showed.

Prosecutors said they had opened a war crimes investigation into the strike they said comprised of three guided bombs.

Sumy borders the Russian region of Kursk where Ukrainian forces launched a shock offensive six months ago but Moscow in turn has stepped up its bombardments on the industrial and farming region.

A Russian drone attack on Sumy city late last month killed at least nine people in a residential building at night.