One killed, 24 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine

One person was killed and 24 others were injured in Ukraine on Saturday as Kyiv and Moscow exchanged overnight strikes, Anadolu Agency reported.

A Russian airstrike in the southern Kherson region killed one person and injured 19, regional military administration head Oleksandr Prokudin said on Telegram.

In the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, five people were injured in an attack on a residential area. The strike damaged multi-storey apartment buildings and set parked cars ablaze, regional military administration head Mykhailo Semikin said.

Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia had launched more than 330 drones and missiles, adding that 293 aerial targets had been suppressed or shot down.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces had carried out a “massive strike” targeting metallurgical plants, a transformer manufacturing facility and energy infrastructure in Kryvyi Rih, Zaporizhzhia and Zhytomyr.

The ministry also said Russian air defenses had intercepted and destroyed 610 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones over Russian territory, Crimea, which Moscow illegally annexed in 2014, and the Black Sea.

Independent verification of the claims remains difficult amid the ongoing war.