Cross-border drone and artillery strikes hit Russia and Ukraine

Intense overnight attacks by Russian and Ukrainian forces have inflicted civilian casualties, power disruptions, and extensive destruction across several regions.

According to Russian officials, air defenses intercepted over 200 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles during a large-scale drone assault targeting the Moscow region, resulting in three injuries. Simultaneously, Ukrainian regional authorities reported that Russian artillery and guided bomb strikes killed at least three people and injured nine others in eastern Ukraine, primarily in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. In the northern Chernihiv region, power grid damage left nearly 99,000 customers without electricity.

Meanwhile, sustained Russian bombardment has left the strategic frontline settlement of Druzhkivka in Donetsk Oblast largely destroyed. The town, which anchors the Kramatorsk defensive belt, has seen its pre-war population of 56,000 dwindle to fewer than 4,000 people.

Sources: Investor.bg, Mediapool, Nova TV