Kyiv: Ukrainian forces downed 40 of the 62 drones of various types launched by Russia overnight, the Ukrainian Air Force reported via Telegram on Sunday. Nineteen drones struck seven different locations, it said. No further information on the strikes was provided. The Ukrainian civil protection authority reported several apartment blocks damaged in Shakhtarske in the Dnipropetrovsk region, around 100 kilometres east of the regional capital of Dnipro. Regional governor Vladyslav Hayvanenko reported on Telegram that 10 people were injured.
According to Ghana News Agency, in Moscow, the Russian Defence Ministry reported downing 45 Ukrainian drones, with most of them being intercepted in the Samara and Saratov regions along the Volga River. No information on possible damage or injury was reported. Orenburg Governor Yevgeny Solntsev reported drone attacks on a gas plant, with one strike leading to a fire in a workshop in the region, which lies in the Urals more than 900 kilometres from Ukraine. There were no injuries to staff, and firefighting was continuing, Solntsev said.
Ukraine has been warding off a full-scale Russian invasion since February 2022.
