Six people have been killed in overnight Ukrainian strikes on Russia’s Belgorod region, as Moscow and Kyiv continue to intensify attacks on each other’s territory despite growing pressure to end the war.
Six people were killed and four others injured in Ukrainian missile strikes on Russia’s Belgorod region overnight, according to the region’s acting governor.
Over the weekend, Kyiv sent about 822 drones flying toward Russia. Six hundred of them aimed straight for the capital. The local governor called it one of the most massive drone attacks in recent memory.
The damage is no longer just military.
In the Belgorod region, a strike burned a building and crushed a car in the small village of Koloskovo. Alexander Shuvaev, the acting governor, said six people died and a 14-year-old child ended up in the hospital.
Further south in Astrakhan, a drone hit a home and killed a woman. Igor Babushkin, the local governor, claimed the real target was a nearby factory. But the factory walked away fine, while the house did not.
Ukraine is also going after the things that keep Russian daily life running. They have been hammering Wildberries, a massive online retailer that acts a lot like Amazon. A warehouse caught fire over the weekend. Ukraine’s defense ministry claims they have now disabled seven of the company’s ten biggest logistics centers.
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The strikes go both ways, and the pain on the ground is heavy.
In Odesa, a Russian attack damaged a civilian ship. In Kyiv, a strike tore through a book market in the Pochayna district. Pictures from the scene just showed burnt pages scattered on the pavement.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country is getting battered from the air, counting over 1,500 attack drones and 60 missiles just this week.
Both sides keep saying the other is targeting regular people on purpose. The lines on a map might look static today, but the sky above the cities tells a different story. Nobody really knows how long these warehouses, book markets, and quiet border villages can keep taking the hits before something completely breaks.
