Russian attacks eastern Ukraine
By Andreas Stein, Katharina Schröder and Gaby Mahlberg
Kiev (dpa) — At least two civilians died in Russian attacks in the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk, according to Dnipropetrovsk Governor Serhiy Lysak on Telegram on Saturday.
A man was killed by artillery fire in the Nikopol district. Lysak said three more people were injured by remote-controlled drones in the Synelnykove district.
In the eastern region of Donetsk, another civilian was killed in a drone attack in the city of Kostiantynivka, according to the military administration chief of the industrial city, Serhij Gorbunov. In a post on Facebook, he urged the remaining residents to leave the city and move to safer areas as the front line is only a few kilometres from the city limits.
Civilian killed in Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Kursk
A civilian was killed by a Ukrainian drone in the western Russian border region of Kursk, an official said earlier.
The attack took place in the village of Obesta, about five kilometres from the Ukrainian border, regional governor Alexander Hinshtein said on Telegram.
A remote-controlled drone struck next to the village club, he said. There was no independent confirmation of this.
Ukraine has been fending off Russia’s full-scale invasion for more than three years.
Kiev has also attacked targets on Russian territory, mainly using drones.
Ukraine, Russia report deaths, damage
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 early 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.
Rostov and Stavropol targeted in Russia
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.
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