Nine people have been killed and at least 28 injured in the latest Russian drone attacks across Ukraine, local officials have said.<\/p>\n
They said the worst-hit was the central Dnipropetrovsk region, where eight people were killed and 11 injured throughout Tuesday. One casualty was reported in the eastern Donetsk region. Overall, 14 regions were attacked.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday morning, President Volodymyr Zelensky said more than 100 Russian drones were currently over Ukraine, warning of “more waves” of attacks throughout the day.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Russian officials said a gas processing plant and two other industrial facilities in three regions were hit by Ukrainian drones overnight. No casualties were reported.<\/p>\n
The latest attacks come shortly after a three-day US-brokered ceasefire expired late on Monday.<\/p>\n
Both Russia and Ukraine reported multiple violations – mostly along the vast frontline – during the truce, but no major aerial attacks.<\/p>\n
Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.<\/p>\n
In a post on Telegram on Wednesday morning, Dnipropetrovsk regional head Oleksandr Hanzha reported more than 30 Russian attacks on three districts throughout Tuesday.<\/p>\n
He said two people were killed in Zelensky’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih, and another six in the Synelnykove district – just south-east of the regional capital Dnipro.<\/p>\n
“More than two dozen houses were damaged,” Hanzha added.<\/p>\n
In the north-eastern Kharkiv region, five people were reported injured and a number of residential houses damaged.<\/p>\n
Russian drone strikes were also reported in the southern Odesa, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, as well as in Poltave – Ukraine’s central region.<\/p>\n
Writing on Telegram on Wednesday morning, Zelensky said 14 Ukrainian regions were attacked throughout Tuesday, and there were more attacks overnight.<\/p>\n
He accused Russia of “purposely” targeting Ukraine’s railway infrastructure and other civilian facilities.<\/p>\n
In its latest update on Wednesday, Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched 139 drones in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n
It said 111 projectiles were shot down or intercepted, but recorded 20 direct hits in 13 locations.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Russian defence ministry said 286 Ukrainian drones were intercepted since Tuesday evening over 14 Russian regions and Crimea – Ukraine’s southern peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014.<\/p>\n
In the southern Astrakhan region, Governor Igor Babushkin said that overnight, falling drone debris triggered a fire at a gas processing plant in the regional capital.<\/p>\n
“There is no threat of air pollution,” he added.<\/p>\n
Local officials also said two industrial facilities were damaged during Ukrainian overnight attacks in the southern Krasnodar region and in the city of Yaroslval, north-east of the Russian capital Moscow.<\/p>\n
In recent months, Ukraine’s military has intensified its strikes on key energy facilities across Russia.<\/p>\n
Kyiv says they are legitimate targets, as they allow Russia to continue its war effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nine people have been killed and at least 28 injured in the latest Russian drone attacks across Ukraine,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[40199,8487,40197,4531,40198,8790,7510,26008,330,325],"class_list":{"0":"post-69253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-volodymyr-zelenskyy","8":"tag-aerial-attacks","9":"tag-dnipropetrovsk-region","10":"tag-drone-attacks","11":"tag-drone-strikes","12":"tag-overnight-attacks","13":"tag-president-volodymyr-zelensky","14":"tag-russian-officials","15":"tag-russian-regions","16":"tag-ukraine","17":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116566944863045801","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}