Russian attacks kill four and injure 28 across Ukraine

Russian strikes in eastern and west-central Ukraine killed four people and wounded 28 others, Euronews reported on Sunday. Strikes on Saturday night in the eastern Dnipro region left four dead and 22 injured, according to local authorities cited by Euronews. Oleksandr Hanzha, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration, said Russian forces used aerial bombs and drones to hit three districts in the Dnipro area more than 20 times. A separate attack in Vinnytsia injured six people, Euronews reported. [1]

The attacks caused damage to infrastructure in the city of Dnipro and destroyed cars, stores, apartment buildings, and private homes in Synelnykiv, Euronews said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated on Sunday that Russia launched roughly 1,600 guided aerial bombs, 48 missiles, and nearly 2,300 attack drones against Ukraine over the past week, Euronews reported. [1]

In a separate development reported by the New York Post, Ukraine hit the main production building of Proton-Electrotex in the Russian city of Orel, roughly 100 miles from the Ukrainian border. The plant produces components for Russian missiles. A Ukrainian drone swarm also disrupted air travel in Moscow, grounding flights and forcing the evacuation of a skyscraper housing several government ministries, according to the New York Post. [2]

Russia has systematically targeted civilian areas and energy infrastructure across Ukraine during the ongoing conflict, leaving the country with only a third of its pre-war electricity generating capacity by mid-2024. As FTMQ News reported earlier, previous waves of strikes cut power to hundreds of thousands of people in Kyiv and other regions. [5][7][8]