Six injured and fires break out after Russian strike on Chernihiv Oblast – photos

Six people were injured and fires broke out following a Russian strike in Chernihiv Oblast.

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Six injured and fires break out after Russian strike on Chernihiv Oblast – photos

A fire at the scene. Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine

Six people have been injured and fires have broken out in a Russian strike on Chernihiv Oblast on the night of 4-5 May.

Source: State Emergency Service of Ukraine on Telegram; Viacheslav Chaus, Head of Chernihiv Oblast Military Administration, on Telegram

Quote: "Russian forces have attacked Chernihiv Oblast, leaving people injured."

Details: Russian forces struck a residential area in one of the settlements of the Horodnia hromada in the Chernihiv district, where a house has caught fire and two men aged 60 and 31 have been injured. [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.]

A firefighter extinguishing the fire

Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine

They have been hospitalised and emergency services have quickly extinguished the fire.

A firefighter extinguishing the fire

Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine

A strike on forest land was also recorded, where a fire broke out. As of the morning, it had been put out.

Photo: National Police

Update: Chaus later added that the Russians had attacked villages in the Horodnia hromada using first-person view (FPV) drones.

He said: "An agricultural facility has been damaged – farm buildings, a car and a tractor. In the evening, a lorry and a house were also damaged by FPV drone strikes. Two civilians were injured. They are aged 30 and 60. They have been hospitalised. A forest management office has been hit in another village. An office building has caught fire. A 58-year-old civilian man has been injured. He is in hospital."

Dry grass caught fire in the Koriukivka, Nizhyn and Novhorod-Siverskyi districts as a result of Russian drone attacks.

Photo: National Police

Afterwards, Chaus added that the Russians had also attacked central Chernihiv.

"An attack drone was used in this strike. An office building and cars have been damaged. Three people have sought medical treatment for concussion. All the necessary services are working at the site of the strike."

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