Russia-Ukraine overnight strikes kill five as Zelensky confirms hit on Volgograd military plant

Russian overnight strikes on Ukraine

Two people were killed and more than twenty wounded in overnight Russian strikes on three Ukrainian regions. In the central-eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, one person died and two were injured after the enemy attacked two districts with drones and aerial bombs, according to the head of the regional military administration, Oleksandr Ganja.

The enemy attacked two districts of the region more than 30 times with drones and aerial bombs.

A drone hit a house in the northern Sumy region, killing one man, while a separate "massive attack" on another zone of the same border area left ten wounded, said regional military governor Oleg Grygorov. Strikes on the south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia wounded at least nine people, including two children.

Ukrainian counterattacks on occupied territories and Russia

Ukraine intensified its reprisal strikes, hitting Russian-controlled areas as well as targets inside Russia. A woman was killed in an attack on Horlivka, a city in Ukraine's Donetsk region that is under Russian control, pro-Russian mayor Ivan Prikhodko said. A strike on an industrial enterprise in Volgograd (south-western Russia) killed at least one person and wounded eleven, according to the regional administration. A Ukrainian drone strike on an industrial facility in the Belgorod region killed one person, while another eleven were wounded when a strike hit a military museum in the Rostov region, Russian authorities reported.

Last night, FP-5 Flamingo missiles successfully struck the Titan-Barrikady complex in Volgograd, a military enterprise.

Damage to civilian infrastructure

Ukrainian emergency services reported that the enemy attack caused significant damage to civilian infrastructure in Zaporizhzhia, where a residential building was partially destroyed. Two people were rescued from the rubble.

The enemy attack caused significant damage to civilian infrastructure in the city.

Photographs posted on Telegram showed a destroyed roof, shattered windows, a ravaged staircase and a wrecked apartment. Russia has been conducting near-daily bombardments of Ukraine since the start of its full-scale invasion in February 2022, the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War II. Ukraine has in recent months stepped up what it calls retaliatory strikes on Russian territory and occupied areas.