{"id":20860,"date":"2026-07-25T10:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T10:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/20860\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T10:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T10:25:07","slug":"11-killed-in-latest-attacks-between-ukraine-and-russia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/20860\/","title":{"rendered":"11 killed in latest attacks between Ukraine and Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian forces have attacked tourist resorts in the partly Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia region, killing eight people, Moscow-installed officials said, while authorities in Ukraine’s Sumy region said a Russian drone strike had killed three people.<\/p>\n

Two children were among the eight killed in the attack on the resorts, said Yevgeny Balitsky, the Kremlin-installed regional head, adding that 14 people were wounded.<\/p>\n

Ukraine did not immediately comment on the attack.<\/p>\n

Sumy regional head Oleh Hryhorov said on Saturday that three people were killed when a large fire broke out after a Russian drone struck a “civilian facility”, adding that the victims were drivers for private Ukrainian postal and courier service Nova Poshta.<\/p>\n

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Firefighters in Sumy (Ukrainian Emergency Service\/AP)<\/p>\n

Russia’s defence ministry said it attacked a “storage and launch site” for Ukrainian drones in the Sumy region.<\/p>\n

In Zaporizhzhia, in south-eastern Ukraine, a Russian drone attack late on Friday hit a shopping centre, causing a fire that spread over a 500-square-metre area and injuring several people, regional head Ivan Fedorov said.<\/p>\n

A major Russian attack on Friday on a site hosting a defence industry event near Kyiv killed at least 10 people and wounded nearly 100 others.<\/p>\n

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky 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.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Romania’s defence ministry said its forces “safely shot down” a drone that breached its air space in an “unpopulated area” near the Ukrainian border.<\/p>\n

The drone was “shot down by a Romanian pilot from an F-16 aircraft,” President Nicu\u0219or Dan said.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s interception came after a drone was shot down around Padina, north east of the Romanian capital Bucharest, on Friday.<\/p>\n

A series of drone incursions by Russia and Ukraine have hit Romania and other Nato members since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.<\/p>\n

In June, a Ukrainian maritime drone exploded at the Black Sea port of Constanta, while three other sea drones exploded outside the port. No one was hurt.<\/p>\n

A Russian drone that was part of an attack on Ukraine in May went astray and struck an apartment building in eastern Romania, injuring two people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainian forces have attacked tourist resorts in the partly Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia region, killing eight people, Moscow-installed officials said,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[101,7866,25,3811,240,2361,26,449,7867],"class_list":["post-20860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-drone-strike","tag-regional-head","tag-russia","tag-russia-and-ukraine","tag-russian-attack","tag-sumy-region","tag-ukraine","tag-zaporizhzhia","tag-zaporizhzhia-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}