Cross-border strikes and frontline bombardments escalate between Russia and Ukraine

Ukrainian and Russian forces launched mutual heavy strikes overnight, leading to civilian casualties, power outages, and continued destruction in frontline zones.

Moscow municipal authorities reported that Russian air defenses intercepted more than 200 Ukrainian drones during an overnight barrage directed at the capital area, leaving three people injured. Concurrently, Ukrainian regional officials stated that Russian artillery and aerial bombardments in eastern Ukraine, notably in Dnipropetrovsk, killed at least three civilians and wounded nine others. In northern Ukraine's Chernihiv region, power grid damage disrupted electricity supplies to approximately 99,000 residents.

Meanwhile, sustained Russian strikes have heavily damaged Druzhkivka in Donetsk Oblast, a strategic node within the Kramatorsk defense line, where the population has fallen from 56,000 before the invasion to under 4,000.

Sources: Investor.bg, Mediapool, Nova TV