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Deadly Overnight Strikes Hit Zaporizhzhia and Crimea as Both Sides Launch Mass Drone Attacks

Kyiv says the overnight barrage underscores its push at the UN for tougher sanctions.

Overview

  • Ukrainian officials reported that guided aerial bombs hit Zaporizhzhia before dawn, killing three people and injuring at least two, with search and rescue now completed.
  • Ukraine’s Air Force said it neutralized 132 of 141 Russian strike and decoy drones launched overnight, as additional attacks caused fires and damage in Sumy and across Kyiv region.
  • Crimea’s Moscow-installed leader Sergei Aksyonov said a Ukrainian drone strike on the Foros resort area killed three and wounded 16, a claim Russia’s Defense Ministry denounced as a “terrorist attack.”
  • Russia’s Defense Ministry said its air defenses downed 114 Ukrainian drones over multiple regions including Rostov, Krasnodar, Belgorod, Astrakhan and annexed Crimea.
  • Ukraine’s military intelligence said its forces struck Russian Be-12 amphibious aircraft in Crimea, releasing video it claims shows the attack.