Ukrainian attacks on holiday camps on Saturday in the partly Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia region have killed 12 people, Moscow-installed officials said, while authorities in Ukraine\u2019s northeastern Sumy region said a Russian drone strike killed three people there.<\/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’s more than 4-year-old invasion of its neighbor.<\/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 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
Russia\u2019s defense ministry said it attacked a \u201cstorage and launch site\u201d for Ukrainian drones in the Sumy region.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Ukraine keeps targeting oil facilities<\/p>\n
A Ukrainian drone attack caused a fire in the grounds of the Tyumen Oil Refinery, in western Siberia, Tyumen regional Gov. Aleksandr Moor said on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Writing on X Saturday, Zelenskyy confirmed the hit on the Tyumen plant, along with a logistics facility in Yekaterinburg and a fuel and lubricants warehouse in Rostov-on-Don.<\/p>\n
Ukraine\u2019s long-range drone technology has evolved during the war, posing a problem for Russia, whose huge land mass is hard to protect fully.<\/p>\n
Kyiv\u2019s forces have targeted Russian oil facilities, causing fuel shortages and embarrassing President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n
Zelenskyy to meet Trump in Washington<\/p>\n
U.S. President Donald Trump and Zelenskyy plan to meet on Tuesday in Washington, a White House official said on Saturday, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss Trump\u2019s schedule before it is announced.<\/p>\n
Kyiv did not immediately comment on the meeting, although Zelenskyy said in his Friday address that Kyiv was \u201cpreparing for a meeting with the President of the United States and his team.\u201d<\/p>\n
A memorial service in Washington for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of Kyiv\u2019s staunchest supporters, is slated for Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Romania shoots down second drone in 2 days<\/p>\n
Romania\u2019s defense ministry said on Saturday its forces had \u201csafely shot down\u201d a drone that breached its airspace in an \u201cunpopulated area\u201d near the Ukrainian border. The drone was \u201cshot down by a Romanian pilot from an F-16 aircraft,\u201d President Nicu\u0219or Dan said in a post on Facebook.<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s interception came after a drone was shot down around Padina, northeast 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 on Saturday in the partly Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia region have killed 12 people, Moscow-installed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7958,7957,430],"class_list":["post-21270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-ap","tag-human_interest","tag-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21270","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=21270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}