A series of Russian drone and aerial attacks across southern and southeastern Ukraine on Saturday evening and early Sunday morning, Aug. 20, killed at least one civilian and injured 10 others, targeting residential areas and civilian infrastructure.
In the Zaporizhzhia region, the National Police reported that a 73-year-old woman was killed and five others were wounded in a wave of morning strikes.
First-person view (FPV) drones targeted the settlements of Yulivka and Kushuhum, killing the elderly woman and injuring two men.
Simultaneously, drone attacks in the regional capital of Zaporizhzhia injured two women, aged 23 and 71, while a guided aerial bomb strike in Novomykolaivka wounded another elderly woman.
In the Odesa region, a Russian strike targeted warehouses storing food supplies for the civilian population.
Odesa Regional Military Administration Head Oleh Kiper stated that the attack triggered a massive fire that was later extinguished by rescue workers. At least three people were injured in the strike and are receiving medical assistance.
Furthermore, Russian drone operators targeted civilians in the Dniprovskyi district of Kherson on Sunday morning.
According to the Kherson City Military Administration, two men, aged 45 and 49, suffered explosive trauma, concussions, and shrapnel wounds in separate drone drops shortly after 9:00 a.m. local time.
Consecutive drone barrages target Kyiv
The weekend strikes in the south follow a Russian drone assault on Kyiv on Saturday evening, Aug. 29, which caused fires across four districts of the capital.
According to the State Emergency Service (SES), a drone strike in the Obolon district ignited a blaze spanning the second to fifth floors of a 12-story residential building, injuring three people.
Emergency workers also battled fires at a non-residential building in the Podil district, an administrative building in the Holosiivskyi district, and a two-hectare grass fire in the Desna district.
The Saturday evening barrage marked the third consecutive day of intense Russian drone attacks targeting Kyiv and the surrounding region.