A mass Russian drone attack killed four people, injured 19, and sparked a large fire in a hotel and restaurant complex and other buildings in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro, the regional governor said.
Serhiy Lysak, governor of the surrounding Dnipropetrovsk region, said on Telegram that a high-rise apartment building and nearly 10 private homes had caught fire. Firefighting crews had brought the blaze in the hotel complex under control.
In an earlier post, Lysak said the casualty toll was likely to rise, with three of the injured in serious condition.
“It is also now known that the enemy directed more than 20 drones toward the city,” Lysak wrote on Telegram. “Most of them were downed.”
Overnight, air sirens sounded in several other Ukrainian regions, including the capital, Kyiv. It was not immediately clear whether there were any casualties.
Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the military administration in Zelensky’s home city Kryvyi Rih, also confirmed on Telegram that there was a ballistic missile attack on the central city on Saturday morning and that, so far, five people had been wounded.
He said the strike damaged high-rise buildings, private houses, a school, and a car wash.
Meanwhile, the Russian defense ministry said three Ukrainian drones were either intercepted or shot down over the western Belgorod region.
In his video address late on Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky again accused Russia of targeting Ukrainian energy infrastructure – in violation of a temporary moratorium agreed earlier this month in talks involving the US.
Moscow has also repeatedly blamed Ukraine for attacking Russia’s energy sector.
