A Russian missile loaded with cluster munitions hit a multi-story building in the city of Dnipro on Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. It was one strike in an attack that reached nine regions and left at least three people dead.
Zelenskyy put the total at more than 600 drones and missiles. Ukraine’s Air Force gave a precise count: 619, made up of 579 drones, eight ballistic missiles and 32 cruise missiles. It said air defenses brought down 552 drones, two ballistic missiles and 29 cruise missiles.
“The enemy aimed at our infrastructure, residential areas, and civilian enterprises,” Zelenskyy wrote on X. He called the strikes “a deliberate strategy by Russia to terrorize civilians and destroy our infrastructure.”
Casualties
In Dnipropetrovsk, at least 30 people were hurt, according to regional governor Serhii Lysak. Several high-rise buildings and homes in Dnipro were damaged.
Local media reported one death and eight injuries in the Chernihiv district. Three of the injured were in a car when a drone hit it. Three medics who came to help were wounded when a second strike landed on the same spot. All six went to hospital.
The other regions targeted were Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, Poltava, Kyiv, Odesa, Sumy and Kharkiv.
Ukraine hits Russian refineries
Ukraine kept up its own campaign against Russian oil. Its General Staff said it struck refineries in the Saratov and Samara regions and damaged a main transport facility in Samara. The Saratov plant, it said, “provides approximately 2.54% of the total volume of oil refinery in Russia,” more than 7 million tons of oil a year. “All affected facilities are involved in supplying the Russian Armed Forces,” the statement read.
Zelenskyy has said oil and gas are a key source of income for Russia’s war effort.
On Friday, the European Commission proposed a new round of sanctions aimed at liquefied natural gas, banks, cryptocurrency platforms and vessels in Moscow’s “shadow fleet.” Zelenskyy welcomed the package. It “targets the key engines of the war economy,” he said, and will “intensify pressure on Russia’s war machine.”
