Attack by Russia kills 3 in Ukraine's city of Dnipro, governor says
Russia launched 235 drones and 27 missiles at Ukraine overnight, damaging residential and commercial property and causing fires.
KYIV - Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles in an overnight attack that killed three people in Ukraine's Dnipro and the nearby region on July 26, Ukrainian officials said.
Moscow's troops launched 235 drones and 27 missiles, damaging residential and commercial buildings and causing fires, the Ukrainian Air Force said.
It said in a statement that 10 missiles and 25 attack drones hit nine sites.
The rest of the drones and missiles were brought down, the Air Force said.
'A terrible night. A massive combined attack on the region,' Mr Serhiy Lysak, the Dnipropetrovsk regional governor, said on the Telegram app.
He said three people were killed in the attacks and six others wounded in the city of Dnipro and the nearby region.
Mr Lysak posted pictures showing firefighters battling fires, a residential building with smashed windows, and charred cars.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed retaliatory strikes.
'Russian military enterprises, Russian logistics, and Russian airports should feel that Russia's own war is now hitting them back with real consequences,' Mr Zelensky said, on the Telegram app.
Ukraine's attacks on Russia have heated up in recent months, with Moscow and Kyiv exchanging swarms of drones and fierce fighting raging along more than 1,000 kilometres of the front line. REUTERS
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