People look at a damaged residential building following a Russian air attack in Lviv, Ukraine, Saturday, July 12, 2025.
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Russia fired more than 620 drones and long-range missiles overnight, killing four people, Ukraine said on Saturday (July 12, 2025), calling for fresh sanctions on Moscow to halt its record barrages.
Kyiv and Moscow have stepped up aerial strikes over recent months, and U.S.-led ceasefire talks aimed at pausing the over three-year war have stalled.
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“Twenty-six cruise missiles and 597 attack drones were launched, of which more than half were ‘Shaheds’,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, referring to Iranian-made drones.
The Ukrainian air force said it had downed 319 Shahed drones and 25 missiles, adding that one missile and about 20 drones hit “five locations”. It did not elaborate.
Mr. Zelenskyy said the strikes had killed at least two people and wounded 20 in Chernvsty in the west, far from the front lines of the east and south.
Six persons were wounded in Lviv, also in the west, while in the east, two people died in Dnipropetrovsk and three were wounded in Kharkiv, local authorities said.
The Russian Defence Ministry said it had targeted companies in Ukraine’s military-industrial complex in Lviv, Kharkiv and Lutsk and a military aerodrome.
On Friday, Ukrainian drone and shelling attacks killed three people in Russia.
U.S. special envoy Keith Kellogg is due on Monday to begin his latest visit to Ukraine as a Washington-led peace effort flounders.
On Friday, the Kremlin restated its opposition to a European peacekeeping force in Ukraine, after French President Emmanuel Macron said Kyiv’s allies had a plan “ready to go… in the hours after a ceasefire”.
Published – July 12, 2025 08:45 pm IST
