Key facts
- Ukrainian drone and rocket strikes overnight July 16 resulted in deaths and injuries across at least three Russian regions.
- The Yaroslavl region reported one fatality and four injuries, with 19 drones downed.
- Saratov region reported casualties from a drone strike on Engels, a city housing a strategic airbase.
- Bryansk region reported two fatalities, a 15-year-old girl and her grandmother, from a rocket strike.
- Ukraine's campaign targets Russian energy infrastructure to reduce oil revenue.
- Russian ballistic missiles also struck Kyiv, killing two people.
Authorities in at least three Russian regions reported deaths and injuries inflicted by Ukrainian drone and rocket strikes overnight, as Kyiv's campaign against Russian energy infrastructure continues. In Yaroslavl region, Governor Mikhail Yevrayev said that one man had been killed and another four injured, adding that 19 drones had been downed over the region. In the Volga river region of Saratov, Russian media cited local authorities as saying there were casualties after a drone strike on the city of Engels, which hosts an airbase that has come under repeated Ukrainian attack in recent years. In Russia's far west, the governor of Bryansk region said that a 15-year-old girl and her grandmother had been killed in a rocket strike on the village of Suzemka that injured a third person. Russia has been experiencing acute fuel shortages across its 11 time zones in recent weeks, as Ukrainian long-range drone strikes hit its oil refineries and other energy infrastructure. Ukraine says it is seeking to limit the oil revenue that funds Russia's war on its neighbour. Ukrainian officials said Russian ballistic missiles struck at least two districts in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early on Thursday, triggering fires and killing two people.