Russian strikes on Ukraine killed at least nine people overnight, including six in Zaporizhzhia in the southeast, authorities announced on Tuesday morning.
In the major city of Zaporizhzhia, “six people were killed and 19 others were injured,” Ivan Fedorov, head of the regional military administration, wrote on Telegram shortly after 7:00 a.m., revising upward the previous toll of five dead.
According to the official, the Russian military launched a “massive” attack using missiles and guided bombs dropped from military aircraft, causing damage to apartment buildings and warehouses, including in the city center. Earlier, he shared an image of a car engulfed in flames.
Russian forces also struck the Dnipropetrovsk region in the east with attack drones and artillery, the regional military administration chief reported. “Three people were killed,” including a 15-year-old, said Oleksandr Khanzha, adding that five others were wounded.
In Kyiv, a series of explosions were heard after midnight, AFP journalists reported, shortly after an alert warning of a ballistic missile attack. A fire broke out in a warehouse, and the latest toll reports one person injured.
Russia’s Defense Ministry announced via X that the strikes targeted “operations of the military-industrial complex and transportation and logistics hubs in the cities of Kyiv and Zaporizhzhia.”
Across the border, a drone strike killed a 49-year-old man and injured two others in Russia’s Voronezh region, while falling debris sparked fires in warehouses, regional governor Alexander Gusev announced on Telegram.
Russian air defenses intercepted and destroyed 15 Ukrainian drones over the city of Voronezh and five areas of the region, he added.
A drone crash “caused fires at two warehouses belonging to a major company,” he added, without naming it. Earlier, Wildberries, Russia’s largest online retailer, announced it had urgently evacuated employees from its facilities in the region as a safety precaution.
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Ukraine facing acute shortage of interceptor missiles
The Russian strikes on Ukraine come in the wake of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s statement that Russia is preparing to deploy thousands of North Korean troops to join the war, having received new ballistic missiles from Pyongyang.
Russian armed forces have intensified ballistic missile strikes in recent weeks — projectiles that only select systems in Ukraine’s arsenal can intercept, most notably the American-designed Patriot air defense system.
However, Kyiv is facing an acute shortage of PAC-3 interceptor missiles for its Patriot batteries, a shortage that has worsened since the outbreak of the war launched by the United States and Israel against Iran at the end of February.
For their part, Ukrainian armed forces have multiplied their own strikes — largely using drones — against Russian infrastructure and cities, often at very great distances from the border.
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