Six people were killed in Russian strikes on Kyiv and two other cities on Saturday, while Ukrainian forces announced they carried out air raids on western Russia, hitting two oil depots.
Three died in overnight aerial attacks on the capital, with two people killed in the southern Kherson region and one in the city of Zaporizhzhia.
Timur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv’s military administration, said on the Telegram messaging app that the deaths in the capital occurred in the central Shevchenkivskyi district during the early hours.
“Russian forces initially launched drones and then a ballistic-missile strike,” parliamentary ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets wrote on social media, quoted by the Reuters news agency.
Ukrainian air force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat told local press that both missiles that had been aimed at Kyiv were destroyed, but that one of them was shot down at a low altitude, resulting in heavy damage.
Other Russian missile attacks killed three more people in the south of the country.
One person died and 11 were wounded in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, regional governor Ivan Fedorov said.
The governor of the adjacent southern region of Kherson, Oleksandr Prokudin, said Russian shelling killed two people in a town north of the regional center, also called Kherson.
The Ukrainian military said that, in total, it had destroyed 24 of 39 drones and two of four missiles launched by Russia overnight.
Timur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv’s military administration, said on the Telegram messaging app that the deaths in the capital occurred in the central Shevchenkivskyi district during the early hours.
“Russian forces initially launched drones and then a ballistic-missile strike,” parliamentary ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets wrote on social media, quoted by the Reuters news agency.
Ukrainian air force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat told local press that both missiles that had been aimed at Kyiv were destroyed, but that one of them was shot down at a low altitude, resulting in heavy damage.
Other Russian missile attacks killed three more people in the south of the country.
One person died and 11 were wounded in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, regional governor Ivan Fedorov said.
The governor of the adjacent southern region of Kherson, Oleksandr Prokudin, said Russian shelling killed two people in a town north of the regional center, also called Kherson.
The Ukrainian military said that, in total, it had destroyed 24 of 39 drones and two of four missiles launched by Russia overnight.
Ukraine strikes oil depots
Meanwhile, Ukraine announced on Saturday afternoon that it had attacked two oil depots in western Russia, the latest salvo in its air campaign against strategic targets on Russian soil.
Kyiv's General Staff said its forces had struck storage facilities in the Kaluga and Tula regions. The scale of the damage was still being assessed, it said in statements on each attack, adding that the depots supported Moscow's war effort.
Kaluga’s regional governor, Vladislav Shapsha, said on Telegram that a fire had broken out after an industrial site was hit in the city of Lyudinovo. His counterpart in Tula, Dmitry Milyaev, wrote that a fuel and lubricant tank had caught fire at a facility in the region as result of a Ukrainian drone attack.
Ukrainian forces have stepped up strikes inside Russia, primarily targeting oil depots and military production facilities, as they struggle to hold back steady Russian advances on the battlefield in eastern Ukraine.
On Saturday, Russian’s defense ministry claimed its forces had taken control of the settlements of Petropavlivka and Vremivka in Donetsk region, Reuters reported.
Both sides in Russia's almost three-year-old invasion of Ukraine have sought to improve their positions ahead of Monday's inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, who has said he would seek a swift end to the war.
Kyiv's General Staff said its forces had struck storage facilities in the Kaluga and Tula regions. The scale of the damage was still being assessed, it said in statements on each attack, adding that the depots supported Moscow's war effort.
Kaluga’s regional governor, Vladislav Shapsha, said on Telegram that a fire had broken out after an industrial site was hit in the city of Lyudinovo. His counterpart in Tula, Dmitry Milyaev, wrote that a fuel and lubricant tank had caught fire at a facility in the region as result of a Ukrainian drone attack.
Ukrainian forces have stepped up strikes inside Russia, primarily targeting oil depots and military production facilities, as they struggle to hold back steady Russian advances on the battlefield in eastern Ukraine.
On Saturday, Russian’s defense ministry claimed its forces had taken control of the settlements of Petropavlivka and Vremivka in Donetsk region, Reuters reported.
Both sides in Russia's almost three-year-old invasion of Ukraine have sought to improve their positions ahead of Monday's inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, who has said he would seek a swift end to the war.
