Russian strikes across Ukraine leave eight dead and over 60 injured

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Posted Aug 18, 2026, 07:30 AM UTC · In the digest of 2026-08-18-0730
Russian strikes across Ukraine leave eight dead and over 60 injured
Photo: Ziarul de Gardă

Russian drone and artillery attacks across several Ukrainian regions have killed at least eight people and wounded more than 60, emergency officials reported.

Russian military forces launched around 180 drones alongside heavy artillery bombardments across multiple Ukrainian regions, leaving at least eight people dead and more than 60 injured, local emergency services reported.

The Dnipropetrovsk region was particularly hard hit, enduring nearly 60 separate attacks across five districts over a 24-hour period. Regional officials confirmed five fatalities and 16 injuries there, with casualties recorded in the Kamianske, Pavlohrad, and Nikopol areas. Near Kryvyi Rih, a drone struck a petrol station, killing three people, including an eight-year-old child.

Additional strikes were reported across the Odesa, Sumy, and Zaporizhzhia regions, damaging civilian infrastructure and igniting fires that emergency response teams were deployed to contain.

Sources: Moldova1, Ziarul de Gardă

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