At least 10 killed, over 100 injured in Russian attacks over past day

Editor's note: This is a developing story, as casualty figures for the attacks on Merefa continue to come in.

Russian attacks against Ukraine killed 10 people and injured at least 102 over the past day, regional authorities said on May 4.

Ukrainian forces downed 135 out of 155 drones, including Shahed-type attack drones, launched by Russia overnight, the Air Force reported. 14 strikes were recorded in ten different locations, according to the statement.

On the morning of May 4, Russian forces struck the town of Merefa in Kharkiv Oblast with missiles, killing at least seven people and injuring another 30, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov reported.

Syniehubov said at 5:50 p.m. local time that 14 of the injured were being treated at medical facilities in the regional capital, Kharkiv.

Ukraine's State Emergency Service on May 4 at 6:26 p.m. reported that 35 people were injured in the attack.

Five more people were injured during the day in other settlements of the region, Syniehubov said in his morning address.

One person was killed, and 12 more were injured in Kherson Oblast, where Russian forces continue to strike civilians on the Dnipro River bank with drones, artillery, and glide bombs on a daily basis.

Several high-rise apartment buildings were damaged in the attacks, said Kherson Oblast governor Oleksandr Prokudin.

A total of one person was killed, and 27 were injured in Russian attacks across Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, with most of them coming from an attack on the regional capital of Dnipro, said governor Oleksandr Hanzha.

In front-line Donetsk Oblast, one person was killed in the town of Oleksiievo-Druzhkivka, just north of the embattled city of Kostiantynivka, regional governor Vadym Filashkin said. Four more civilians were wounded throughout the oblast.

Eleven people were injured, including two children, in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, as Russian forces attacked the regional capital with drones in the evening, said governor Ivan Fedorov.

At least seven people were injured in Sumy Oblast, all from Russian drones, as the front line and border areas in the region continue to pose serious dangers for civilians, oblast authorities said.

In Chernihiv Oblast, a 30-year-old man was injured by a Russian drone attack on the yard of his home, about ten kilometers from the Russian border, according to oblast governor Viacheslav Chaus.