Both countries exchanged drone strikes early Saturday morning, injuring two in Ukraine’s Zaporozhye and at least seven in Russia’s Tambov region.
ADVERTISEMENTTwo people were wounded in attacks by Russian drones in the city of Zaporozhye in the south of Ukraine, said the head of the regional military administration there, Ivan Fedorov.
The attacks damaged 20 houses and caused three fires, while debris from the drones damaged a shopping kiosk, private houses and a low-pressure gas pipe, the State Emergency Service of the Zaporizhzhia region reported.
“We were sitting in the room, watching TV, and then suddenly this explosion rang out, and everyone went numb and stood there. And then we went outside to look. A neighbor who was repairing the roof was also hit,” said a local.
Russia also launched 74 drones over Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Cherkassy, ​​Chernihiv, Kiev, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia, Kirovohrad, Kherson and Mykoliv, the Ukrainian military said.
47 were said to have been shot down, while 27 disappeared from radar.
In Russia, at least seven people were injured in a Ukrainian drone strike in the Tambov region overnight on Saturday, according to local authorities.
Windows were broken and balconies were damaged in two five-story buildings in the city of Kotovsk, acting governor of the Tambov region Yevgeny Pervišov said on his Telegram channel.
Videos on social media show damaged buildings and debris strewn across the road.
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of its smaller neighbor on February 24, 2022, Europe’s largest armed conflict since World War II has claimed tens of thousands of lives on both sides.
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