Regional officials said at least eight people were injured across Ukraine in a Russian drone attack and missile attack overnight.
Four deaths have been reported in the western Kumelnitsky region of Ukraine. Three more deaths were reported in the Kiev region, one in the southern city of Mikolife.
It will be the day after Kiev suffered one of the heaviest attacks since the beginning of the Russian invasion.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said air defense units had fired down or intercepted 95 Ukrainian drones in many Russian regions, including Moscow, during the four-hour period on Saturday night. No victims have been reported.
The drone attack forced a short halt on all flights at Moscow’s airport.
Russian President Vladimir Putin began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and Moscow currently controls about 20% of Ukrainian territory.
This includes the Southern Peninsula of Ukraine, which was annexed by Russia in 2014.
In a statement on Facebook, Khmelnytskyi Regional Chief Serhiy Tyurin said four people were killed and five were injured in the Russian attack.
“Six private homes were destroyed and another 20 were damaged,” he added.
Kyiv Regional Director Mykola Kalashnyk said three people have been killed and 10 have been injured.
He posted social media photos of several homes that flare up after the Russian strike.
In the capital Kiev, local officials reported 11 injuries, multiple fires and damages to residential buildings, including dormitories.
We saw hundreds of people evacuated at the city’s underground stations. That comes when Capital marks its annual Kiev Day holiday on Sunday.
In Mykolav, Ukraine’s Emergency Services DSNS said the body of an elderly man was pulled out from a five-storey residential building where drone was attacked. Five more people were injured.
In Harkiff, local authorities reported three injuries.
In Russia, the Ministry of Defense said Ukrainian drones targeted eight regions of Russia.
“From 20:00 Moscow time (17:00 GMT) to 00:00 on May 24, on May 25, the air defense unit on duty destroyed and intercepted 95 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles,” the ministry said in a statement.
Moscow mayor Sergei Sobianin reported that 12 drones heading towards the capital had been shot down.
He added that emergency services crews have been deployed to assess the damage caused by the falling drone debris.
In the Tula region just south of Moscow, drone wreckage crashed in the courtyard of a residential building, destroying windows in many apartments, said local Dmitri Miliyayev.
No one was injured, he added.
