The Russian attack on a large scale against Ukraine kills 3 people and injuries from tens

Russia has sparked a large attack of drones and missiles against Ukraine overnight, killing three people, injuring tens more and damaging the infrastructure and residential buildings, President Volodyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday.

Despite diplomatic efforts to find ways to end the war that started when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the fighting has intensified in recent months.

In a declaration on the Telegram messaging application, Zelenskyy said that Russia had launched around 580 drones and 40 missiles targeting infrastructure, civil manufacturing companies and residential areas in different parts of the country. The air defenses have shot down 552 of drones and 31 missiles, said the Air Force of Ukraine.

Russia terrorizing civilians, says Zelenskyy

“All night overnight, Ukraine was under a massive attack in Russia,” said Zelenskyy. “Any strike of these such is not a military necessity but a deliberate strategy of Russia to terrorize civilians and destroy our infrastructure.”

Russia denies targeting Ukrainian civilians.

In the central city of Dnipro, a missile with a cluster munition struck a residential building, said Zelenskyy.

One person was killed and at least 26 people were injured in Dnipro, regional officials said.

Two people were also killed in the Chernihiv region in the North and the Khmelnytskyi region west of the country, regional officials said.

Reuters could not independently verify reports on the battlefield.

“I could hear the” Shahed “(drone) getting closer and closer. I understood that he was flying to us. My child and I were very afraid,” Yulia Chystokletova told Reuters, a kyiv resident.

“It should not happen in the 21st century. We are everyone. Okay … sit down at the negotiation table.”

kyiv faces increasing pressure in eastern Ukraine, where Russian troops maintain their crushing advance, villages and devastating cities and demand new territories.

Both sides intensify drone attacks

To strike Ukrainian cities far from the front line, Russia seems to have changed its tactic and now launches swarms of hundreds of drones in a single strike, compared to dozens at the start of the war.

Ukraine generally reacts with drone strikes, aimed at reaching the Russian territory more deeply, hitting refineries, fuel deposits and logistics centers.

Ukraine has struck two Russian oil refineries in the Saratov and Samara regions in the overnight attacks, causing explosions and fires, Ukrainian general staff said.

“Regarding refineries, we have drones, we know how to produce them. It all depends on the number of drones we use per day,” Zelenskyy told journalists.

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“As soon as the number of drones is comparable to that of the Russians, they will feel it in terms of fuel shortages and the number of queues in service stations.”

The Russian Defense Ministry said that its forces had succeeded with high -precision weapons on Ukrainian industrial military facilities overnight.

Polish and allies planes were also deployed early Saturday to ensure the security of Polish airspace after some of the air strikes in Russia targeted western Ukraine near the border with a member of NATO, the Polish military command.