Ukraine reports casualties from Russian attacks in capital city, Russia launches cluster strike on Ukraine military airfields

Ukraine reported casualties from Russian attacks in capital city of Kiev from Wednesday to Thursday while Russian forces carried out a cluster strike targeting the infrastructure of Ukrainian military airfields on Wednesday.

On Thursday,loud explosions continued to be heard in the Ukrainian capital, with air raid sirens sounding across the city.

Mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko said on the same day that the capital city was attacked by Russian drones and missiles, causing casualties.

Meanwhile, on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky posted on social media that Russia launched a new round of large-scale attacks on several Ukrainian cities.

Within the day, the number of air targets totaled 741, and most of the incoming targets had been intercepted, Zelensky said.

In addition, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said on the same day that as of 16:00 local time, 112 battles had occurred on the front lines, with the Ukrainian army repelling the Russian attacks in multiple directions.

According to the daily briefing of the Russian Defense Ministry, the Russian army used long-range, high-precision air-launched weapons and long-range attack drones to carry out the cluster strike on the infrastructure of Ukrainian military airfields early on Wednesday morning.

The strike target had been achieved, with all established targets destroyed, the ministry said.

The Russian air defense systems also shot down 9 guided air bombs, 4 U.S.-made "HIMARS" rockets and 226 drones, it added.

Ukraine reports casualties from Russian attacks in capital city, Russia launches cluster strike on Ukraine military airfields

Ukraine reports casualties from Russian attacks in capital city, Russia launches cluster strike on Ukraine military airfields

Ukraine reports casualties from Russian attacks in capital city, Russia launches cluster strike on Ukraine military airfields

The death toll from a landfill collapse in the central Philippine city of Cebu has risen to eight by Monday morning as search and rescue operations continued for another 28 missing people.

The landfill collapse occurred on Thursday as dozens of sanitation workers were working at the site. The disaster has already caused injuries of 18 people.

Family members of the missing people said the rescue progress is slow, and the hope for the survival of their loved ones is fading.

"For me, maybe I’ve accepted the worst result already because the garbage is poisonous and yesterday, it was raining very hard the whole day. Maybe they’ve been poisoned. For us, alive or dead, I hope we can get their bodies out of the garbage rubble," said Maria Kareen Rubin, a family member of a victim.

Families have set up camps on high ground near the landfill, awaiting news of their relatives. Some people at the site said cries for help could still be heard hours after the landfill collapsed, but these voices gradually faded away.

Bienvenido Ranido, who lost his wife in the disaster, said he can't believe all that happened.

"After they gave my wife oxygen, my kids and I were expecting that she would be saved that night because she was still alive. But the night came and till the next morning, they didn't manage to save her," he said.

Death toll in central Philippine landfill collapse rises to eight