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Firefighters in Sumy (Ukrainian Emergency Service\/AP) (Ukrainian Emergency Service via ) <\/p>\nUkrainian attacks on holiday camps in the partly Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia region have killed 12 people, Moscow-installed officials said, while authorities in Ukraine\u2019s north-eastern Sumy region said a Russian drone strike killed three people.<\/p>\n
The strikes followed a major Russian attack on Friday near Kyiv that killed at least 10 people and wounded around 100 others, part of a relentless cycle of tit-for-tat attacks that dims the potential of reaching a diplomatic end to Russia\u2019s more than four-year-old invasion of its neighbour.<\/p>\n
The exchange comes as Ukraine\u2019s successful drome attacks have stalled the Russian army\u2019s advances in an expanded campaign by Kyiv inside Russia that has been hitting high-profile targets, causing fuel shortages and piling pressure on Russian leader Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n
Four children were among 12 people killed in the attack on the resorts in Zaporizhzhia, Yevgeny Balitsky, the Kremlin-installed regional head, said, adding that 19 others were wounded.<\/p>\n
Ukraine did not immediately comment.<\/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 \u201ccivilian facility\u201d, adding that the victims were drivers for private Ukrainian postal and courier service Nova Poshta.<\/p>\n
Firefighters in Sumy (Ukrainian Emergency Service\/AP) (Ukrainian Emergency Service via ) <\/p>\n
Russia\u2019s defence ministry said it attacked a \u201cstorage and launch site\u201d 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\u2019s 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\u2019s defence ministry said its forces \u201csafely shot down\u201d a drone that breached its air space in an \u201cunpopulated area\u201d near the Ukrainian border.<\/p>\n
The drone was \u201cshot down by a Romanian pilot from an F-16 aircraft,\u201d President Nicu\u0219or Dan said.<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s 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 attacks on holiday camps in the partly Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia region have killed 12 people, Moscow-installed officials said,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[430,25,3541,26,449],"class_list":["post-21094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-international","tag-russia","tag-sumy","tag-ukraine","tag-zaporizhzhia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21094","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=21094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}