Russia and Ukraine witnessed a wave of mutual shelling and an intense drone war, resulting in casualties and injuries on both sides and the destruction of vital and military facilities, as air defenses in both countries shot down hundreds of drones over Ukrainian cities and Russian regions.
The Ukrainian Air Force Command announced on Sunday the shooting down and neutralization of 137 drones out of 164 launched by Russian forces towards its territory since yesterday evening. The Ukrainian news agency "Ukrinform", citing military and government sources, reported casualties and widespread material damage due to a new wave of Russian shelling. Vadym Vyshnevskyi, head of the Donetsk regional military administration, announced the death of five civilians and injuries to five others during the past 24 hours.
Serhiy Lysak, head of the Odesa regional military administration, announced the death of one person and damage to infrastructure facilities following an attack targeting the city. Meanwhile, the State Emergency Service confirmed injuries to one person and damage to buildings and residential houses in the center of Khmelnytskyi due to a drone attack. Oleksandr Koval, head of the Rivne regional military administration in northwestern Ukraine, stated that a Russian drone attack last night resulted in the destruction of a building and a fire breaking out inside a civilian industrial facility in the Sarny area.
In the same context, the Ukrainian electricity company "DTEK" announced that a Russian attack targeted vital energy facilities in the Dnipropetrovsk region in eastern Ukraine during the night, causing serious damage to infrastructure and cutting off electricity to more than 600,000 people. Meanwhile, Belgorod region governor Alexander Govor reported the death of one civilian and injuries to three others due to 138 Ukrainian attacks on the region during the past 24 hours, noting the shooting down and disruption of 106 Ukrainian drones in its airspace.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that its forces targeted a substation near the town of Bilozerka in the Zhytomyr region during the night, which supplied electricity to Ukrainian military-industrial institutions, in addition to targeting a cargo ship in the Black Sea southwest of Odesa that was transporting weapons and military equipment to Ukraine. The ministry also confirmed that its systems intercepted and destroyed 142 drones over several areas. Meanwhile, Kursk region governor Alexander Khinshtein announced the shooting down of 267 other Ukrainian drones over the region during the past 24 hours, noting that Ukrainian forces targeted areas whose residents had been evacuated with artillery.
Moscow is seeking to intensify its strikes against Ukrainian energy infrastructure to undermine Kyiv's manufacturing and defensive capabilities, coinciding with tightening military control over supply lines across the Black Sea. In contrast, Ukraine is increasingly relying on long-range drone weapons to strike deep into and Russian border regions, in an attempt to shift the burden of the war into Russian territory.
Source: Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA)
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