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Russia and Ukraine traded accusations on Saturday over overnight strikes, a day after confirming a localized ceasefire agreement in the Russian-controlled city of Oleshky in southern Ukraine, Anadolu Agency reported.
In Kyiv, the city’s military administration said on Telegram that two people were injured when an attack damaged a private residential building in the Obolonskyi district.
Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said a drone struck the Industrialnyi district of Ukraine’s second-largest city. Authorities were working to establish details and assess the consequences, he said.
Ukraine’s Air Force said its air defences had shot down 101 of 126 drones launched by Russia overnight.
Russia’s Defence Ministry said it had struck a facility at the port of Chornomorsk in the southern Odesa region that was “used for the production of uncrewed surface vessels”. It also said it targeted a dry-cargo ship “transporting supplies to the port of Odesa intended for the support of the Ukrainian Armed Forces”.
The ministry said Russian air defences had shot down 616 Ukrainian drones over 20 regions, as well as over the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov and Crimea, which Moscow annexed in 2014.
In Russia’s southern Rostov region, Governor Yury Slyusar said debris from a downed drone fell on the premises of a municipal public transport company in the regional capital, causing damage but no casualties.
Slyusar also said drone debris damaged a transformer substation in the settlement of Kalinin, leaving more than 170 homes without electricity. Restoration work was under way, and one person was injured in the strike, he added.
The overnight attacks followed confirmation on Friday that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to a temporary ceasefire in Oleshky, in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region. The agreement was brokered by US First Lady Melania Trump.
Moscow and Kyiv said the halt would take effect in the early hours of Tuesday, while an earlier White House statement said the localized ceasefire would begin on Thursday.
