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Two people died and 14 were wounded when Russian forces
overnight attacked the Bukovina area in the Chernivtsi region of
southwestern Ukraine with four drones and a missile, regional
Gov. Ruslan Zaparaniuk said Saturday. He said that the two
people died due to falling debris from a drone.
A drone attack in Ukraine’s western Lviv region wounded nine
people, regional Gov. Maksym Kozytskyi said.
Three people were wounded in Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine
when the city was hit by eight drones and two missiles, Mayor
Ihor Terekhov said.
Russia fired 597 drones and decoys, along with 26 cruise
missiles, into Ukraine overnight into Saturday, Ukraine’s air
force said. Of these, 319 drones and 25 cruise missiles were
shot down and 258 decoy drones were lost, likely having been
electronically jammed.
Following the overnight attacks, two people were killed Saturday
morning in a missile strike in the Dnipropetrovsk region,
according to regional Gov. Serhii Lysak.
Russia has been stepping up its long-range attacks on Ukrainian
cities. Earlier this week, Russia fired more than 700 attack and
decoy drones at Ukraine overnight, topping previous nightly
barrages for the third time in two weeks and targeting Lutsk
near the border with Poland in western Ukraine, a region that is
a crucial hub for receiving foreign military aid.
Poland’s air force scrambled fighter jets in areas bordering
Ukraine in response to the overnight attacks, Polish officials
said.
Russia's intensifying long-range attacks have coincided with a
concerted Russian effort to break through parts of the roughly
1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line, where Ukrainian troops
are under severe pressure.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said it shot down 33 Ukrainian drones
overnight into Saturday.
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