Deaths occur. Russia and Ukraine exchange strikes with hundreds of drones
Saw a new escalation in the exchange of attacks with Three people were killed as a result of Russian strikes that targeted several areas, most notably the coastal region of Odessa in the south of the country, while one person was killed in Ukrainian attacks near the Russian capital, Moscow, and another in southern Ukraine, where Russian forces have been making field progress since the summer of 2025.
Russia-Ukraine War
In the same context, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky escalated his tone, pledging to intensify strikes against energy sites inside Russia if Moscow does not stop them. Its military operations, stressing that the continuation of the war will lead to an expansion of the scope of Ukrainian responses.
Zelensky indicated that Ukrainian forces targeted a Russian ship equipped with cruise missiles inside the port of Primorsk in the Leningrad region, in addition to striking two oil tankers suspected of belonging to what is known as the Russian “ghost fleet” near the port of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea, without specifying the extent of the damage.
334 aircraft Ukrainian drone
Russia reported that its air defenses intercepted 334 Ukrainian drones during the night in more than 12 regions near its western border, while some attacks resulted in deaths, including a 77-year-old man near Moscow, in addition to a boy in the Zaporizhzhya region in southern Ukraine.
This escalation comes at a time of continued intensive use of drones by both sides, as recent months have witnessed strikes. Large-scale exchanges, coinciding with the faltering of diplomatic efforts to end the war that has been ongoing since February 2022.
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