‘We’ve Never Seen Anything Like This’ - 12 Wounded in Massive Russian Drone and Missile Attacks, Zelensky’s Hometown Hit

A massive Russian drone and missile attack struck the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelensky early Wednesday, injuring a teenager, destroying an industrial facility, and cutting power to parts of the city.

The attacks came after US President Donald Trump gave Moscow 50 days to reach a peace deal with Ukraine.

Officials said the city of Kryvyi Rih, located in central Ukraine, came under a rare combined assault involving a ballistic missile and 28 Shahed-type drones. The head of the local defense council, Oleksandr Vilkul, called it “unprecedented.”

“We’ve never seen anything like this – a ballistic missile and 28 Shaheds at once,” Vilkul said on Telegram. “An industrial facility was destroyed. Thankfully, no one was killed – the staff were in shelters.”

A 17-year-old boy was seriously injured in the attack, suffering a critical abdominal wound. Doctors are working to save his life, Vilkul said.

Several neighborhoods were left without electricity, and water supplies had to be switched to backup generators. Fire crews were still battling multiple blazes as of Tuesday morning.

“It won’t be fixed quickly. There are several fires. Crews are working,” Vilkul said.

Elsewhere in Ukraine, the central city of Vinnytsia also came under heavy drone attack overnight. At least eight people were injured, including two in critical condition with burns, officials said. Four residential buildings and industrial facilities were damaged in the strikes.

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The regional military administration said 28 drones targeted Vinnytsia, with air defenses managing to shoot down about 18 of them.

Three people were also wounded in an attack on Ukraine’s second city, Kharkiv, the region’s governor, Oleh Synehubov, said on Telegram.

The Ukrainian Air Force reported shooting down 198 of 400 strike drones. Another 145 decoy drones were lost from radar or jammed by electronic warfare systems.

Officials confirmed that one missile and 57 drones hit targets across 12 locations, with debris from downed drones falling in two places. The main cities hit were Kryvyi Rih, Kharkiv, and Vinnytsia.

The overnight strikes came several hours following the Russian combined strike on Tuesday afternoon, which killed two people in the Kharkiv region and one in the northern province of Sumy.

The attacks come amid a sharp escalation in Russian aerial strikes. Over the past two months, Russia has been launching over 500 drones at Ukraine almost daily, often in near-nightly waves. On July 9, Ukraine reported a record assault, with 741 aerial targets launched in a single night.

Trump on Monday said he had struck a deal with NATO to supply Kyiv with American air-defense systems and other weapons to Ukraine and threatened Russia with tariffs and sanctions, as he grows frustrated with Russian leader Vladimir Putin for rejecting a ceasefire and instead intensifying attacks.