Kyiv: Russia bombarded Ukraine with airstrikes overnight, killing at least two people, local authorities said on Monday. A strike on the Black Sea port city of Odessa killed one man and damaged civilian infrastructure, the regional military governor, Oleh Kiper, said.
According to Ghana News Agency, the military governor of Ukraine's southern Kherson region, Oleksandr Prokudin, reported that a 35-year-old man was fatally injured when a drone hit a tractor near the town of Beryslav. In north-eastern Kharkiv, drone attacks on residential buildings injured 27 people, including three children, as noted by the city's mayor, Ihor Terekhov.
In a renewed attack, Terekhov stated that a further 16 people were injured, with six Shahed drones attacking the city within 10 minutes. The army reported on Facebook that a recruitment centre building in Kharkiv was hit. In Zaporizhzhya, a drone reportedly crashed near a recruitment centre, injuring a soldier, according to Military Governor Ivan Fedorov, who mentioned 17 injured on Telegram.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia deployed 101 drones and decoy drones during the night, with 58 shot down and 17 downed electronically. Moscow also reportedly fired four repurposed S-300/400 air-defence missiles. The Defence Ministry in Moscow stated it had shot down 93 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory and the annexed Crimean peninsula.
Ukraine has been defending itself against the full-scale Russian invasion for more than three years. As part of its defensive efforts, it also targets sites in Russia. The previous day, two people were killed in a Ukrainian drone attack, according to the governor of the Russian region of Belgorod, Vyacheslav Gladkov. The casualties and damage inflicted on Russia by Ukraine are much more limited than the devastating consequences of the Russian war in Ukraine.
