Three killed and dozens injured in Russian overnight drone strikes on Ukraine

Published on 29/05/2025 - 14:06 GMT+2

Russian overnight drone attacks connected Ukraine person killed 3 group and injured 27 crossed 9 regions, including Sumy, Kharkiv and Donetsk.

The Ukrainian Air Force reported that retired of 90 drones launched by Russian forces overnight, 10 were successfully changeable down.

Another 46 drones were either stopped by physics warfare systems aliases vanished from radar screens.

Local Ukrainian rule enforcement reported much than 2,000 strikes on nan beforehand statement and successful residential neighbourhoods, causing harm to buildings and homes.

In Sumy region's metropolis of Bilopillia, a Russian drone onslaught killed 1 personification and wounded another, section authorities confirmed.

Donetsk region's Governor Vadym Filashkin reported that 1 was killed and 13 injured successful nan colony of Rivne during nan attacks. The attacks besides damaged a building of nan Sloviansk Pedagogical Lyceum, located wrong nan field of nan Donbas State Pedagogical University.

"We thought it would beryllium 1 aliases 2 strikes, but they conscionable kept coming, 1 aft another. In total, we counted 13. But nan thirteenth flew complete and didn’t detonate - it conscionable landed somewhere," said Oleksandr, a resident of Sloviansk.

Wave of Moscow's aerial attacks continues

In nan Zaporizhzhia region, a Russian-guided aerial explosive targeted nan colony of Verkhnia Tersa, sidesplitting 1 personification and injuring another, according to Governor Ivan Fedorov.

The onslaught destroyed 5 houses, damaged 50 more, and near astir 600 households without power.

Russian forces besides struck nan Nikopol territory successful nan Dnipropetrovsk region, injuring 2 residents.

Meanwhile, successful nan Kherson region, Russian attacks deed 40 settlements, including nan location superior Kherson, causing injuries to 10 people, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin stated.

The latest strikes travel a three-day activity of aerial attacks by Moscow, during which Russian forces launched much than 600 drones and dozens of missiles crossed Ukraine.

The latest strikes travel a three-day activity of aerial attacks by Moscow, during which Russian forces launched much than 600 drones and dozens of missiles crossed Ukraine.

Meanwhile, an detonation successful nan Russian metropolis of Stavropol killed Zaur Gurtsyev, nan city’s lawman mayor, Stavropol Governor Vladimir Vladimirov confirmed.

Gurtsyev allegedly led Russia's aerial cognition to seizure nan Ukrainian metropolis of Mariupol successful 2022.

The Investigative Committee of Russia reported that 2 men were recovered dormant astatine nan segment pinch aggregate injuries.

Authorities person launched an investigation into nan incident, but Ukraine has not yet commented.