On the night of Friday, January 31, the Russian army launched 102 kamikaze drones at Ukraine. Ukrainian air defense forces operated in 12 regions of the country, according to the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine expressed condolences to family and friends of those killed in a Russian strike that targeted an apartment block in Sumy, and stressed the importance of continued international pressure on Russia over such terror.

The death toll from the Russian drone strike on a multi-story residential building in Sumy has risen to nine, Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said.

Ukrainian officials said Thursday a Russian drone attack killed at least four people in the northeastern city of Sumy. The regional state administration in Sumy said a drone hit a high-rise residential building, and that the attack also injured nine people.

The Sumy Regional Prosecutor's Office announced this on Facebook, Ukrinform reports. “As of 11:00, four people were killed in an enemy attack on a high-rise building: two couples - a 74-year-old man and his 69-year-old wife, a 65-year-old man and his 64-year-old wife,” the report says.

Here are the key developments on the 1,072nd day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Here is the situation on Friday, January 31:

On August 6, Kyiv began the military operation into Kursk, which appeared to take Russian President Vladimir Putin and even Ukraine's allies by surprise. Kyiv later announced it had seized 500 square miles at what was then the lightly-defended border of the Russian region.

Emergency teams continue to remove debris, conduct rescue operations at site, says State Emergency Service of Ukraine - Anadolu Ajansı

A Russian drone strike in Sumy resulted in nine fatalities and significant damage to an apartment block. President Zelensky condemns the attack.- Watch Video on English Oneindia

A Russian drone strike on a residential building in Sumy, Ukraine, resulted in nine deaths and injured 13, including a child. The attack, part of a broader overnight offensive, damaged businesses and homes across Ukraine.

A Russian drone strike tore through an apartment building in northeastern Ukraine overnight, killing at least four people and injuring nine