Key facts
- Four people were killed and four injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on Enerhodar, according to Russia.
- Russia and Ukraine traded aerial attacks, resulting in multiple casualties and injuries on both sides.
- Ukraine reported that Russian aerial attacks targeted residential buildings and civilian infrastructure.
- Russia claimed to have seized villages in eastern Ukraine.
- Ukraine claimed to have struck Russian oil refineries in the Samara and Saratov regions.
Russia reported that a Ukrainian drone attack on the Russian-controlled town of Enerhodar resulted in four fatalities and four injuries. This incident occurred amidst a broader exchange of aerial attacks between Russia and Ukraine over the weekend, which led to casualties and damage on both sides.
According to Alexei Likhachev, head of Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom, the attack in Enerhodar, home to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, caused the deaths and injuries. Enerhodar has been under Russian control since early in the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Officials on both sides reported significant aerial bombardments. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that Russia launched a "massive" overnight attack, killing at least three people and injuring over 30 across various regions, including Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv, Zaporizhzhia, Poltava, Kyiv, Odesa, Sumy, and Kharkiv. Zelensky described the attacks as a "deliberate strategy" to intimidate civilians and destroy infrastructure, noting a direct missile hit on a residential building in Dnipro.
Ukraine's air force reported that Russia deployed 619 drones and missiles, with its air defense systems intercepting a significant portion. Russia's Defense Ministry claimed its "massive strike" utilized precision weapons targeting military-industrial facilities. Meanwhile, Ukraine's military stated its drones successfully struck the Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery in the Samara region and also hit the Saratov oil refinery in the neighboring region. Samara regional Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev confirmed four deaths from a drone attack in his region.
In other developments, Russia's Defense Ministry claimed to have seized the village of Zelenyi Hai in the eastern Donetsk region and Maliivka in the Dnipro region, claims that Ukraine had not immediately commented on. Kharkiv sustained an intense aerial bombardment, with six people injured, including four rescuers hit by a secondary strike.