Russian drone and missile strikes across Ukraine killed at least seven people overnight, including five in the city of Dnipro, Ukrainian local authorities have said. The attacks, described as the largest in several days, also targeted Odesa and Kharkiv, leaving at least 34 people injured.
The Dnipropetrovsk regional head, Oleksandr Hanzha, said the strikes lasted "practically all night", with the bodies of four people found in the ruins of a destroyed house. Fires broke out across Dnipro, damaging blocks of flats, businesses and a private house. Another person was killed in a subsequent strike on Saturday afternoon in the same residential area.
In Odesa and Kharkiv, drone attacks injured at least three people. Ukrainian authorities said they repelled most of the more than 600 Russian drones launched in the onslaught. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the attacks, noting that most targets were ordinary urban infrastructure, including residential buildings, energy facilities and enterprises.
Ukraine also carried out some of its longest-distance drone strikes deep inside Russian territory. In the border region of Belgorod, a woman was killed and a man seriously injured by a drone strike. The overnight attacks followed a prisoner swap on Friday, in which Russia and Ukraine exchanged 193 service members as part of US-brokered negotiations.
