Russian attacks kill two, injure dozens


March 30 (Reuters) - Russian ⁠attacks on central and northern ⁠Ukrainian regions on Monday killed two ‌people and injured more than 20, regional officials said.

Near the central city of Poltava, falling debris ​from drones killed one person, ⁠injured three and ⁠damaged a high-rise apartment building, regional governor ⁠Vitaliy ‌Diakivnych said on Telegram.

Drone attacks and artillery strikes killed one ⁠person in the adjacent Dnipropetrovsk region near ​the ‌town of Nikopol, Regional Governor Oleksandr ⁠Ganzha said ​on Telegram. Two people were injured in the town and 12 throughout the ⁠region.

Russian forces launched two strikes ​with glide bombs in the Sumy region near the Russian border, injuring 13 people, ⁠including a 6-year-old child, regional governor Oleh Hryhorov said. Fifteen homes were damaged.

Senior Russian military officials have said their forces ​are committed to creating ⁠buffer zones in Sumy and in the ​neighbouring Kharkiv region ‌in the northeast.

Reuters could not ​independently verify the accounts.

(Reporting by Ron Popeski; Editing by Jamie Freed)

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