Kyiv and Moscow experienced a flurry of drone and missile attacks overnight, resulting in multiple injuries in Ukraine and damage to a fuel reservoir in a Russian border region,
According to AFP, officials reported on Friday.
The intensity of cross-border aerial assaults has increased recently, with Kyiv focusing on Russian energy facilities and Moscow executing retaliatory strikes.
Russia claimed it had intercepted 87 Ukrainian drones, 70 of which were aimed at the southern Rostov region, where the headquarters of its military operations against Kyiv is located.
The defense ministry reported that 70 drones were intercepted over Rostov, six over Kursk and Voronezh each, and two over both Volgograd and the Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine.
These attacks caused power outages in several areas of the Rostov region, according to its governor, Vasily Golubev, via social media.
In Voronezh, a region bordering Ukraine, debris damaged a fuel reservoir, regional governor Aleksander Gusev stated.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian officials said their air defense systems had intercepted 24 out of 31 Russian drones and missiles launched overnight.
In the war-torn Donetsk region, six individuals were injured in an assault on the frontline town of Selydove, its governor reported.
Additionally, a drone attack in the eastern Sumy region resulted in three injuries, while several homes in the neighboring Kharkiv region sustained damage.
