Russian authorities claim to have also suffered drone attacks by Ukraine. These weapons would have been shot down in the early morning.
At least 11 people died on Saturday in Russian attacks in eastern Ukraine, as rescue teams in the city of Dnieper dug through the rubble after an attack razed a nine-story residential buildingleaving one dead.
The attacks occurred while Russia continues to push back Ukrainian troops in several areas throughout the 1,000 kilometers of line from the front.
More airstrikes on Ukraine
Moscow has intensified the air strikes in an attempt to exhaust the resources of Ukraineoften directed against energy facilities and other vital infrastructure.
In a post on X, the Ukrainian president, Volodímir Zelenskisaid seven people had died in missile attacks on the city of Vilnianskjust outside the city of Zaporizhzhia, in southeastern Ukraine.
“Our cities and communities suffer daily from this type of russian attacks“, public Zelenski. “But there are ways to overcome it: by destroying terrorists where they are,” she added.
“Eliminating the Russian missile launchers, hitting them with long range weapons and increasing the number of air defense systems in Ukraine. I thank all our partners who are helping us.”
A call to allies
Zelensky reiterated his call to the allies to pprovide Ukraine with more long-range weapons and better air defenses to stop what he says are daily attacks on his country.
“Today the enemy has carried out another terrible terrorist act against the civilian population,” declared the governor of the Zaporizhia region, Ivan Fedorov, in a video posted on the Telegram messaging application.
13 bombings in 24 hours
The attack occurred “in broad daylight, a non-working day, In the city center, where people were resting, where there were no military objectives,” he said. For his part, the governor of the town of Niu York, Donetsk, stated that Russian forces had bombed populated areas 13 times in the last 24 hours.
Las ukrainian air forces declared on Saturday that they had demolished 10 Russian drones launched in night attacks.
“That’s why we constantly remind all our partners: just a sufficient amount of high quality air defense systems“Only a sufficient amount of determination from around the world can stop Russian terror,” Zelensky said.
Ukrainian attacks against Russia
Russian authorities reported Ukrainian attacks in the Kursk region in which five people died. Two children were among the victims of the attack in the town of Gorodishcheon the Russian-Ukrainian border, as reported by Governor Alexey Smirnov on social networks.
In his morning statement, the Ministry of Defence Russian said that six Ukrainian drones had been shot down during the night over the Russian regions of Tver, Briansk and Belgorod, as well as on the peninsula of Crimea, which Moscow annexed to Ukraine in 2014.
The Ukrainian government also responded on Saturday to a statement from the Belarusian military in which it said that had increased his strength throughout the northern border of Ukraine in response to what it described as security threats.
The announcement came after the Belarusian border agency stated that its troops They had shot down a Ukrainian drone who had flown across the border to gather intelligence.
