Key facts
- Russia attacked petrol stations in Kyiv with jet-powered drones, killing two and injuring eight.
- A Ukrainian drone strike killed two people in Russia's Tula region.
- Russia has resumed frequent drone attacks on Kyiv after a brief respite.
- Both sides are escalating strikes on logistics and economic targets.
- Ukrainian drones also damaged civilian infrastructure in Saratov, Russia.
Russia attacked petrol stations in Kyiv with jet-powered drones, killing two people and injuring eight in overnight fighting that stretched into Friday. The attacks followed an earlier strike on a Kyiv residential block that injured another eight people. Meanwhile, Ukraine launched drone strikes in Russia's Tula region, killing two people and injuring three, according to the regional governor.
Russia has resumed frequent waves of attack on Kyiv and its suburbs with jet-powered drones this week. Both Moscow and Kyiv have in recent weeks traded escalating strikes on logistics and other economic targets aimed at damaging each other's war effort. The two latest deaths in Kyiv were at one of the two petrol stations attacked, officials said, and a rescue worker was among those injured in a double-tap strike on one of them, emergency services said.
"There is no military objective behind such strikes. This is terror of the civilian population," said Bohdan Kukura, CEO of Ukrainian oil company Ukrnafta. A woman was killed in the region surrounding the Ukrainian capital, the regional governor said.
Russian e-commerce company Ozon said on Telegram a drone attack had caused a fire at its logistics hub in the central Volga River city of Saratov. Ukrainian drones also damaged civilian infrastructure in Saratov, regional governor Roman Busargin said on Telegram, adding that there were no casualties. Over two dozen warehouses owned by Ozon and fellow online retailer Wildberries have been hit in recent attacks which Kyiv casts as part of a campaign against economic infrastructure underpinning Russia's war in Ukraine. Two people were injured in a missile attack that hit two residential buildings and damaged an industrial facility in Volgograd. The governor of Russia's Perm region said two industrial facilities had been attacked by drones.