Russian forces continued attacks across several Ukrainian regions over the past day, killing and injuring civilians and damaging residential areas and infrastructure.
In Kyiv, two people were killed and six injured, including a 16-year-old boy, during a Russian attack, Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported. Three of the wounded were hospitalized.
In Zaporizhzhia region, Russian troops carried out 974 strikes on 56 settlements, killing seven people and injuring 20 others in attacks on Zaporizhzhia city, Zaporizhzhia district and Polohy district, according to regional governor Ivan Fedorov.
The attacks included 30 air strikes, 684 drone attacks — mostly FPV drones — and 260 artillery strikes. Authorities received 147 reports of damage to infrastructure, homes, vehicles and outbuildings.
In Kherson region, one person was killed and 19 others injured as Russian forces shelled settlements with artillery and attacked with drones. The strikes damaged residential buildings, including two apartment blocks and 22 private houses, as well as critical and social infrastructure, a post office, a mobile communications tower, a shop and private vehicles, regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin said.
Three residents were killed and 14 injured in Donetsk region on July 15, according to regional governor Vadym Filashkin. The deaths were reported in Yasna Polyana. The total number of Russian attacks on civilians in the region does not include casualties from Mariupol and Volnovakha.
Kharkiv also came under drone attack. According to Ukraine’s State Emergency Service, a strike in the Nemishlyanskyi district caused a fire in an outbuilding on private property. The fire was later extinguished. The attack also damaged buildings in the city’s Central Park area and other civilian infrastructure.
Russian forces also targeted Dnipropetrovsk region with drones. Fires broke out in Kryvyi Rih, while infrastructure, private homes and a vehicle were damaged in the Petropavlivska community. Nikopol was also attacked, regional authorities reported.
In Mykolaiv region, Russian attacks killed two people and left another man seriously injured, while also damaging port infrastructure, civilian vessels, an agricultural enterprise and a fuel station, regional governor Vitalii Kim reported.
Russian forces attacked the region with Shahed and Gerbera-type strike drones. A strike on port infrastructure in Mykolaiv district killed a 61-year-old man and damaged two civilian vessels. Another drone attack targeted an agricultural enterprise in the Novyi Buh community, killing a 67-year-old man and seriously injuring a 65-year-old man who was hospitalized. The attack damaged storage facilities and vehicles.
Later, Russian forces attacked the Ochakiv community with a strike drone, reportedly a Lancet-type weapon, damaging a fuel station.
