At Least 5 Dead as Russia and Ukraine Exchange Wave of Strikes
Mutual air strikes between Russia and Ukraine on Saturday killed at least five people and wounded dozens, according to officials.
At least five people were killed and dozens wounded in a series of reciprocal air strikes in Ukraine and Russia on Saturday, local authorities reported.
Russian strikes across Ukraine killed two people and injured more than 20. In the central-eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, one person was killed and two injured, according to regional military administration head Oleksandr Ganzha. In the northern Sumy region, a Russian drone struck a residential building, killing a 66-year-old man, the local governor said. A separate attack in the same region wounded 13 people, Ukraine's State Emergency Service reported. Strikes on the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region wounded nine people, including two children, and caused extensive destruction to civilian infrastructure. Emergency workers rescued two people from the rubble of a partially destroyed apartment building.
In the Russian-controlled town of Horlivka in Ukraine's Donetsk region, a woman was killed in a strike, the Russian-backed mayor Ivan Prikhodko said on Telegram.
Meanwhile, in southern Russia's Rostov region, a drone attack hit a military museum, wounding 11 people, according to Governor Yuri Slyusar. In the western Belgorod region, local authorities said a civilian was killed when Ukrainian drones struck a manufacturing facility. In the Volgograd region, one person was killed and 11 wounded during overnight strikes that damaged industrial infrastructure.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed responsibility for the Volgograd attack. He said that newly deployed long-range FP-5 Flamingo missiles had struck a defense manufacturing plant. "It is a major industrial complex where the enemy produces artillery systems and specialized military equipment, including components for missile launch systems used in attacks against our people," Zelensky wrote.
