Russian strikes cause widespread casualties across Ukraine as Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk targeted

Russian aerial attacks across multiple Ukrainian regions resulted in widespread casualties and infrastructure damage. In the Dnipropetrovsk region, nearly 60 bombardments left five people dead and 16 injured, including three fatalities from a drone strike on a gas station near Kryvyi Rih. Meanwhile, strikes on Odesa wounded eight people while damaging residential buildings, port facilities, and the power grid. Ukrainian authorities reported that Russian forces launched approximately 180 drones targeting eastern and southern territories, including Sumy and Zaporizhzhia. Separately, a Ukrainian drone strike reportedly killed three people in Russia's Belgorod region. Earlier casualty figures for the Kyiv region placed the death toll between 15 and 17 following repeated overnight missile and drone strikes.

Sources: Adevărul, Digi24, HotNews, Moldova1, Ziarul de Gardă