“Kropyvnytsky underwent probably the most huge enemy assault. Peaceable residential buildings had been destroyed,” regional governor Andriy Raikovych mentioned.
The Ukrainian railway operator Ukrzaliznytsia mentioned its companies had been disrupted within the area because of shelling.
“That is what a ceasefire from Putin seems to be like. Russia assaults civilians with nice pleasure,” presidential aide Andriy Yermak wrote on social media.
The Ukrainian air power mentioned that the Russian barrage, together with on Kropyvnytsky, consisted of 171 drones and that its air defence shot down 75 drones. One other 63 had been downed by digital jamming techniques or had been misplaced.
Russia in the meantime mentioned its air defence items had shot down 132 Ukrainian drones in a number of areas throughout the nation.
The southwestern area of Saratov and its metropolis of Engels “had been right now subjected to probably the most huge UAV (drone) assault ever”, mentioned its governor Roman Busargin, who added the assault triggered a hearth on the Engels airbase.
The assault wounded two folks in Engels and broken faculties and a hospital, Russia’s investigative committee mentioned.