At least one person has been killed and more than a dozen others, including several minors, have been injured in varying degrees in a new wave of Russian drone and missile attacks across Ukraine, including Zaporizhzhya and Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian local authorities have reported.
Late this Friday afternoon, a drone collided with a car on the road connecting Zeleny Hai, a town in Ukraine’s Odessa region, to Griaipore, Zaporizhzhia region. The attack claimed the life of a 69-year-old man and injured his 67-year-old wife, according to a statement shared by Zaporizhzhia Governor Ivan Fedorov via Telegram.
Fedorov, who called the incident “a cynical act of terrorism against civilians,” immediately warned of a new air threat due to the presence of drones and cruise missiles in the Zaporizhzhia region and other surrounding areas, where an air alert has been declared.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, local authorities reported at least a dozen people were injured since Friday afternoon after a series of “enemy attacks by Grad multiple rocket launchers, artillery and FPV drones.”
In the town of Nikopol, a 43-year-old woman and two men, ages 47 and 57, were receiving outpatient treatment after the first recorded attack, said Vladislav Khayvanenko, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Region State Administration.
Khayvanenko himself later reported that a drone crashed into a high-rise building in the same area, causing a fire that destroyed several apartments and injured seven people, including two children aged 2 and 13.
In Odessa, several Ukrainian supply facilities were damaged as a result of attacks by Moscow in recent hours, including energy infrastructure facilities in the southern part of the region. “Fortunately, there were no reports of deaths or injuries,” regional governor Ole Kipel added on Telegram.
Moreover, these new “massive attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure” caused several regions across Ukraine to suffer power outages. “The emergency cuts will be stopped once the situation in the energy system has stabilized,” the country’s Energy Minister Svitlana Hlinczuk said. “Despite the enemy’s plans, Ukraine will enjoy light and heat this winter,” he declared.
Thus, for more than three and a half years Kiev has defended itself from Russian aggression with Western support, but the country’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy regretted this Friday that he does not know what the American President Donald Trump is talking about about “significant progress” towards ending the conflict, and accused the Russian side of sending false “signals” to postpone the application of other forms of pressure.
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