Not less than one individual has been killed and 24 wounded, together with two youngsters, in assault that focused Zaporizhia.
Printed On 30 Aug 2025
A “large” in a single day Russian assault on central and southeastern Ukraine has killed not less than one individual, with properties and companies broken in a number of cities, authorities have mentioned, whereas Kyiv has struck two Russian oil refineries.
“At night time, the enemy carried out large strikes” on Zaporizhia, Ukraine’s state emergency service mentioned on Telegram on Saturday.
Not less than one individual was killed and 24 others have been wounded, together with two youngsters, in line with regional navy administration chief Ivan Fedorov.
“Russian strikes destroyed personal homes, broken many services, together with cafes, service stations and industrial enterprises,” Fedorov mentioned.
Ukraine’s central Dnipropetrovsk area additionally got here underneath assault early on Saturday, the governor mentioned, reporting strikes in Dnipro and Pavlohrad.
“The area is underneath a large assault. Explosions are being heard,” Serhiy Lysak wrote on Telegram, warning residents to take cowl.
Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Dnipropetrovsk had been largely spared from intense preventing.
However Kyiv acknowledged on Tuesday that Russian troops had entered the area, after Moscow claimed it had gained a foothold there.
Dnipropetrovsk isn’t one of many 5 Ukrainian areas – Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Crimea – that Moscow has publicly claimed as Russian territory.
The Ukrainian air power mentioned it struck down 510 of 537 drones and 38 of 45 missiles launched by Russia in its in a single day assault, including that it recorded 5 missile and 24 drone hits at seven areas.
Within the meantime, the Ukrainian navy mentioned that it struck Russian oil refineries in a single day. The navy mentioned it recorded a number of explosions and a fireplace on the Krasnodar oil refinery. There was additionally a fireplace within the Syzran oil refinery space within the Samara area.
Kyiv reeling from lethal assault
The brand new Russian assaults come two days after an enormous Russian drone and missile assault rocked Kyiv and its residents, one of many worst on the capital within the warfare now in its fourth yr, which authorities mentioned killed as much as 25 individuals.
Authorities mentioned 22 of these killed, together with 4 youngsters, had been residents of an condominium constructing destroyed within the metropolis’s japanese Darnytskyi district.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday mentioned the strike, which broken the places of work of the European Union and British Council, was the second-largest assault since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine.
On Saturday, Zelenskyy mentioned that Moscow had used preparation time for a summit of leaders to launch new large assaults on his nation. “The one solution to reopen a window of alternative for diplomacy is thru powerful measures towards all these bankrolling the Russian military and efficient sanctions towards Moscow itself – banking and vitality sanctions,” he wrote on X.
In the meantime, European Union international coverage chief Kaja Kallas mentioned on Saturday that it was not potential to think about giving again Russian belongings frozen contained in the bloc because of the warfare until Moscow had paid reparations.
“We are able to’t presumably think about that … if … there’s a ceasefire or peace deal that these belongings are given again to Russia in the event that they haven’t paid for the reparations,” she instructed reporters earlier than a gathering of EU international ministers in Copenhagen.
Zelenskyy has urged allies to swiftly elevate talks on safety ensures for Ukraine to the extent of leaders, as EU defence ministers assembly Friday within the Danish capital pledged to coach Kyiv’s troops on Ukrainian soil within the occasion of a truce.
The Ukrainian president mentioned he anticipated to proceed talks with European leaders subsequent week on “NATO-like” commitments to guard Ukraine, including that United States President Donald Trump must also be concerned.
