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Overnight Escalation: Deadly Strikes Across Ukraine as Drones Batter Belgorod

Regional authorities describe civilian casualties alongside power cuts across multiple oblasts.

Overview

  • Ukrainian officials report nationwide strikes with explosions in Chernihiv, Rivne and Kharkiv, and President Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia launched more than 50 missiles and about 500 attack drones overnight.
  • In Lviv region four people were killed and fires broke out, while Zaporizhzhia reported one dead, 10 injured and more than 73,000 customers without electricity, with gas service cut to hundreds of connections.
  • Cherkasy authorities cite damage to power lines from drones, and Ukraine’s air-raid map showed prolonged alerts that continued into Sunday across multiple regions.
  • Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov says the region came under more than 70 shells and 106 drones in 24 hours with deaths and injuries reported, and subsequent drone attacks in Belgorod city damaged vehicles and injured a local official in Mokraja Orlovka.
  • Russia’s Defense Ministry claims its ‘Dnepr’ grouping killed up to 55 Ukrainian troops and destroyed electronic-warfare assets in Zaporizhzhia, while Georgia’s interior ministry says five opposition figures were detained after election-day unrest in Tbilisi.