Russian Drone Strikes Target Civilians in Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson

Russian forces continued drone operations against Ukrainian cities on Sunday, June 21, striking targets in the Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions.

Russian drone strikes target infrastructure and civilians

In Kharkiv, Mayor Ihor Terekhov reported that a drone struck the parking lot of a shopping center located in the city’s Saltivskyi district.

According to the preliminary information provided by the mayor on social media, the strike resulted in no casualties and no significant structural damage was recorded.

Concurrently, in the southern region of Zaporizhzhia, Regional Military Administration Head Ivan Fedorov reported that a Russian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) targeted a local gas station. Initial assessments indicate that one individual sustained injuries in the attack.

In a separate incident in Kherson, local authorities reported a targeted drone attack on a civilian. The Kherson City Military Administration stated that at approximately 12:00 local time, Russian forces dropped an explosive device from a drone on a 61-year-old man in the city’s Dniprovskyi district.

The individual sustained a mine-explosive trauma and shrapnel wounds to both legs. Medical personnel transported the victim to a local hospital, where he is currently undergoing examination and receiving treatment.

Weekly Russian attack statistics

The Sunday strikes occur amid an intensified period of aerial bombardments across the country. Earlier on Sunday, President Volodymyr Zelensky issued a statement detailing the scale of recent Russian attacks, noting that forces utilized approximately 2,200 attack drones over the past seven days.

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In his statement, Zelensky also reported the deployment of over 1,800 guided aerial bombs (KABs) and 87 missiles of various types, primarily targeting frontline and border communities across the Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Odesa, Sumy, Donetsk, Kirovohrad, and Rivne regions.

The president highlighted the severe impact of the weekend’s attacks, specifically noting that guided aerial bomb strikes on Saturday resulted in five fatalities and 26 injuries in Zaporizhzhia. Additional strikes in the Poltava region caused two deaths and injured 12 people, including six children, while an attack on the city of Sumy resulted in one fatality and five injuries.