In a village under Russian occupation, two civilians were killed by a Ukrainian missile attack. While during the night from Friday to Saturday, thirty Russian drones were shot down during a large-scale attack, says Kyiv.
In southern Ukraine, in a village in the Kherson region, occupied by the Russians, two civilians were killed and two others injured this Saturday in a Ukrainian missile attack.
“Most of the rockets in the salvo were shot down by the air defense, but one HIMARS hit the ground and exploded during the delivery of humanitarian aid,” Vladimir Saldo, head of the salvo, said on Telegram. regional Russian occupation administration.
According to him, Russian soldiers “who were helping to unload” humanitarian aid were also injured in this strike which targeted the village of Nova Mayatchka.
The Kherson region, in southern Ukraine, is partially occupied by Russia and the positions of the two camps are demarcated by the Dnieper. Russians and Ukrainians each control a bank of the river.
Russia for its part regularly bombs the city of Kherson and its surroundings, causing deaths and injuries.
The HIMARS-type rockets used by Ukraine were supplied by the United States and allow Kyiv to target Russian positions far behind the front line.
Ukraine targeted by new drone attack
Attacks at night and in the air. The Ukrainian army claimed to have repelled a new Russian drone attack during the night from Friday to Saturday by shooting down 30 of the 31 devices launched in several regions of the country.
“A total of 31 Shahed-136/131 attack drones were used in the attack, which the occupiers sent to different regions of Ukraine,” the Air Force said in a statement.
The attack targeted, among others, the capital, kyiv, the southern region of Kherson and the western region of Khmelnytsky, all regularly struck by Russia.
One dead in Russia
Russian authorities, for their part, indicated the death of one person in nighttime Ukrainian bombings on the occupied part of the Kherson region, in the south of the country.
The governor of the Russian region of Belgorod, Vyacheslav Gladkov, reported 41 Ukrainian strikes in the last 24 hours on this territory bordering Ukraine, which is regularly targeted.
Friday evening, the Russian army had already indicated that it had repelled an attack by 26 Ukrainian drones in the space of two hours above Crimea, a peninsula annexed in 2014. A few hours earlier, it was the Russian region of Kursk which was targeted by six drones.
