Ukraine Drone Attack On Russia: 3 Killed As Oil Infra Hit; Moscow’s Aerial attacks on Kyiv Touch Record High
Eleven people were wounded in an overnight drone strike on the Kharkiv region (Image courtesy: AI pic)
While much smaller in size than its opponent Russia, Ukraine has developed and modernised its drone weaponry and has conducted several such strikes since the conflict between the two countries started in February 2022. In its latest drone offensive against Russia, Kyiv targeted several sites including key oil infrastructure and military sites.
Ukraine’s drone attack on Russia launched overnight into Saturday killed at least 3 people. Another 11 people got injured in the overnight drone strike on the Kharkiv region, Governor Oleh Syniehubov said. In its latest strike, Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) and the SBU intelligence agency claimed they hit high-value targets in the Russian territory.
In the last 3 years, Kyiv has developed and significantly improved its drone warfare.
How much damage was done in latest drone strike by Ukraine against Russia?
Along with hitting several key sites, the drone attacks also killed 3 people, which include an elderly man in the Samara region who was killed after falling drone debris caused a house fire. In Penza, a woman was killed and 2 others injured after a strike on the Elektropribor electronics facility. A security guard lost his life in the Rostov region.
Governors reported damage to industrial facilities in these and other regions. While there was no official statement from Russia on which sites and facilities were hit in the latest strikes by Kyiv, Ukrainian authorities later claimed they targeted key sites in energy and defense sectors.
According to them, this drone attack was in response to the deadly Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities earlier in the week. Ukrainian strikes hit the Ryazan and Novokuibyshevsk oil refineries, a fuel storage facility in Voronezh, said Ukraine’s General Staff, adding that a defense-linked electronics manufacturer in Penza was also struck.
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Commenting on its latest drone strike, Ukraine said it was in retaliation of the attacks launched by Moscow earlier in the week. Russia launched 53 drones and decoys at Ukraine overnight into Saturday, according to the Ukrainian air force, which stated that air defenses shot down or jammed 45 drones.
On Friday, a day before the Ukrainian drone strikes, a Russian drone and missile attack killed 31 people, including five children, and wounded over 150.
Russia’s drone attacks on Ukraine: Highest-ever?
Interestingly, the drone strikes by Russia on Ukraine touched their all-time high last month, an AFP analysis showed. Moscow has been intensifying its deadly bombardment of Ukraine as peace talks stall. In July 2025, Russia upped its long-range drone attacks by nearly 16%, launching aerial attacks on Ukraine every night.
