Ukraine, Russia report deaths and damage in renewed aerial attacks
Kiev
Russian forces launched 208 drones and dummy drones, 12 Iskander ballistic missiles and 15 cruise missiles at Ukraine overnight, targeting the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region in particular, the Ukrainian Air Force reported on Saturday.
Ukrainian forces downed 183 drones and 17 missiles and cruise missiles, the report said.
Dnipropetrovsk Governor Serhiy Lysak posted on Telegram that three people had been killed and six injured in Dnipro and its environs. He spoke of a "terrible night."
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Sumy and Kharkiv had also come under attack. "Such strikes certainly cannot be left without response, and Ukrainian long-range drones ensure one," he posted on X.
"Russian military enterprises, Russian logistics, and Russian airfields must see that Russia's own war is now hitting them back with real consequences. The precision of our drones, the daily nature of Ukraine's responses - are some of the arguments that will surely bring peace closer," Zelensky posted.
Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said five people, including three emergency workers, had been injured as they were attending an earlier strike. Sumy military Governor Oleh Hryhorov said three people had been injured.
Authorities in the Rostov region in southern Russia said that two people had died in Ukrainian attacks. Governor Yury Slyusar posted on Telegram that a car had burnt out and that power had been cut to a row of houses by a falling drone.
Videos published on Telegram showed an explosion at an industrial company in Stavropol in southern Russia. According to media reports, the Signal factory was hit. It is one of the main manufacturers of radio electronics for the Russian army and is under EU sanctions.
Governor Vladimir Vladimirov posted that a Ukrainian drone attack on industrial sites had been warded off, while he acknowledged a "small fire" that had quickly been doused.
The Russian civil aviation authority said that traffic had been disrupted at the Vladikavkaz, Kaluga and Grozny airports.
The Russian Defence Ministry reported that 54 Ukrainian drones had been downed overnight over seven Russian regions and the Crimean Peninsula, 12 of them over the Rostov region.
The tit-for-tat attacks occur almost nightly, as Ukraine seeks to ward off a full-scale Russia invasion that began in February 2022.
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