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Russian and Ukrainian Attacks Kill at Least 10 People
Confirmed
In Short: Russian and Ukrainian attacks killed at least 10 people over the weekend, with both sides blaming each other for the escalating violence.
In Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, two women died under the rubble of their home following an overnight Russian barrage of drones and missiles, according to the regional military administration.
Two more people were killed in Sumy, Ukraine, in a separate Russian attack, local officials reported.
In Russia’s southern Krasnodar region, a Ukrainian drone attack killed three people and wounded two, Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said on Telegram.
Russian media reported that Ukrainian strikes overnight into Saturday killed three people in the Russian-occupied part of Zaporizhzhia region.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said every settlement proposal remained on the table, though Moscow was still weighing what served its interests.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on the United States to implement sanctions against Russia and those financing its war.
The Ukrainian leader also pressed for stronger responses to keep the war from spreading further, noting that Russia was escalating every single day.
In Kyiv, several people were wounded a day after a daytime Russian attack killed seven people.
Daniel Umansky, a 14-year-old Israeli boy, was killed at his family’s home in central Kyiv when a Russian drone struck the area.
US President Donald Trump asked Ukraine to stop hitting Russian diesel refineries, blaming the attacks for creating a diesel shortage that he said was 'hurting the world.
Ukraine, however, has long argued that it considers Russian energy infrastructure a legitimate military target, since Russia’s oil and gas industry directly powers Moscow’s finances and its war on Ukraine.
Background
Ukrainian forces have launched a significant drone offensive on Moscow, damaging a key oil refinery and causing widespread debris, according to reports.
Russian strikes have damaged a Ukrainian education facility in Kyiv, according to reports.
What's confirmed
- Russian attacks killed four people in Ukraine, while Ukrainian strikes killed six in Russia and Russian-occupied territory, officials on both sides said on Saturday.
- Moscow-installed regional head Yevgeny Balitsky said Ukrainian strikes overnight into Saturday killed three people in the Russian-occupied part of Zaporizhzhia region, according to Russian state media.
What's still developing
- Russia’s Defence Ministry meanwhile said Russian forces struck a cargo vessel with military supplies near Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa on Saturday.
- “The aims of the special military operation will be achieved, the threat to Russian security will be eliminated and peaceful life will come back,” he said.
- New strikes come as Russian FM accuses Europe of doing ‘everything it can to thwart peace talks’ with Ukraine.
- Russia and Ukraine have traded attacks that have killed at least 10 people, while the United States pushes for talks to end the war and Moscow’s top diplomat blames Europe for hindering negotiations.
- Both Moscow and Kyiv have stepped up attacks after the deadliest summer since 2022 — the year Russia launched its invasion, starting Europe’s worst war since World War Two.
- Vladimir Saldo, appointed by Moscow to lead occupational authorities in the Kherson region, said a Ukrainian drone had hit a cafe in the village of Askaniya-Nova, near Crimea, Friday evening.
- In Russia’s southern Rostov region, Gov. Yury Slyusar said five people were injured in Ukrainian drone attacks, including one person in Taganrog and four in Azov, among them a child.
- He said Russian air defenses downed more than 30 drones over several locations, including Rostov-on-Don and the Azovsky, Myasnikovsky and Neklinovsky districts.
- Russia’s Defense Ministry said its air defenses downed 645 Ukrainian drones over 13 regions, as well as over the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov and Crimea, which Moscow annexed in 2014.
- The ministry also said Russian overnight strikes in Ukraine targeted a data center in Kyiv that it claimed facilitated mobile internet operations and supported Starlink satellite communications used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
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- WarpBeat — background on Ukrainian Forces Strike Russian Oil Refinery, Airfield in Latest Attacks link
- ABC 7 Chicago — video link