Russian drone and bomb fire killed at least six people across Ukraine’s east and south, local authorities said on Friday.
Moscow has escalated long-range aerial attacks on Ukraine’s towns and cities as well as frontline assaults and shelling over the past weeks, defying Trump’s warning that it could face massive new sanctions if no peace deal is struck.
Ukraine said Russia fired 35 long-range drones overnight. The strikes killed at least three people in the Dnipropetrovsk region, which is an important industrial mining territory under increasing pressure from Russia’s attacks.
“Administrative buildings, a shop, and private houses have been damaged,” Governor Sergiy Lysak said on Telegram after a morning drone attack caused a fire to break out in the region’s Kamyanske district, where two were killed. A 52-year-old man was killed too in another drone attack elsewhere in the region.
In the Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions–all of which are partially occupied by Russian forces–attacks killed another three people.
