Civilian lives were lost on both sides of the Russia-Ukraine border Saturday as drone strikes and artillery fire struck multiple areas, according to local officials.
In Russia’s Bryansk border region, two people were killed when a Ukrainian drone hit their vehicle in a village close to the border. The region’s acting Governor Yegor Kovalchuk shared the news on Telegram.
Russia’s Defence Ministry, as cited by Russian news agencies, reported that 124 Ukrainian drones were shot down over Russian territory during a 12-hour window between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. local time (0500-1700 GMT).
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin released a series of updates throughout the day reporting that Ukrainian drones headed toward the Russian capital had been intercepted. Russian news agencies tracking the situation tallied approximately 21 drones intercepted over the course of the day.
On the Ukrainian side, Oleksandr Ganzha, the governor of the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk Region, reported that a combination of more than 40 drone strikes and artillery attacks near the city of Nikopol resulted in one fatality and one injury.
Nikopol sits across the Dnipro River from the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and has been a repeated target of Russian attacks.
