Moscow-installed officials said Saturday Ukrainian forces attacked holiday camps in the partly Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia region, killing eight people, while authorities in Ukraine鈥檚 northeastern Sumy region said a Russian drone strike killed three people.
The strikes followed a major Russian attack on Friday near Kyiv that and wounded nearly 100 others, a relentless cycle of tit-for-tat attacks that dims the potential of reaching a diplomatic end to Russia’s more than 4-year-old of its neighbor.
Two children were among the eight people killed in the attack on the resorts in Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia, Yevgeny Balitsky, the Kremlin-installed regional head, said Saturday, adding that 14 people were wounded.
Ukraine did not immediately comment on the attack.
Sumy regional head Oleh Hryhorov said on Saturday three people were killed when a large fire broke out after a Russian drone struck a 鈥渃ivilian facility,鈥� adding that the victims were drivers for private Ukrainian postal and courier service Nova Poshta.
Russia鈥檚 defense ministry said it attacked a 鈥渟torage and launch site鈥� for Ukrainian drones in the Sumy region.
In Zaporizhzhia, in southeastern Ukraine, a Russian drone attack late Friday hit a shopping center, causing a fire that spread over a 500-square-meter area and injuring several people, regional head Ivan Fedorov said.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned in his evening address on Friday that intelligence assessments indicated that Russia was preparing missiles for a large attack, saying there were indications that this could happen in the next 48 hours.
On Saturday, Romania鈥檚 defense ministry said its forces 鈥渟afely shot down鈥� a drone that breached its airspace in an 鈥渦npopulated area鈥� near the Ukrainian border. The drone was 鈥渟hot down by a Romanian pilot from an F-16 aircraft,鈥� President Nicu葯or Dan said in a post on Facebook.
Saturday鈥檚 interception came after a drone was shot down around Padina, northeast of the Romanian capital, Bucharest, on Friday.
A series of drone incursions have hit Romania and other NATO members since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
In June, a Ukrainian maritime drone of Constanta, while three other sea drones exploded outside the port. No one was hurt.
A Russian drone that was part of an attack on Ukraine in May went astray and in eastern Romania, injuring two people.
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