Russian forces launched sweeping attacks across multiple Ukrainian regions over the past 24 hours, killing and wounding civilians, destroying residential buildings, and reducing a school to ash.
The Kherson region bore some of the heaviest casualties, with Russian forces striking 32 settlements using a combination of drones, artillery, and aircraft. Thirteen people were wounded, among them a child, regional military administration head Oleksandr Prokudin announced via Telegram.
The attacks swept across a vast swath of the region, hitting Antonivka, Zorya, Beryslav, Kherson city, and dozens of other communities. Russian forces targeted critical and social infrastructure as well as residential neighborhoods, damaging three apartment buildings and nine private homes.
In the Chernihiv region, a Shahed-type drone struck the village of Masheve overnight on May 29, igniting a fire that completely gutted the local school building. Oleksandr Seliverstov, head of the Novhorod-Siverskyi district military administration, said the blaze destroyed the entire structure and everything inside it. No civilian casualties were reported, though authorities said an assessment of the full extent of the damage was still ongoing.
Russian troops carried out more than ten strikes across three districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region, wounding one person. Regional administration head Oleksandr Hanzha said Russian forces used artillery and drones in the assault.
In the Nikopol district, the cities of Nikopol, Marhanets, Pokrovske, and Chervonohryhorivka were struck, damaging two apartment buildings and a vehicle. A 60-year-old man was hospitalized in critical condition. The Synelnykove district also came under fire, with private homes burning in the Pokrovska and Vasylivska communities. In the Kryvorizky district, the Apostolivska community sustained damage to a vehicle.
The scale of the assault on the Zaporizhzhia region was staggering. Regional administration head Ivan Fedorov reported that Russian occupiers carried out 764 strikes against 44 settlements over the course of the day, wounding four people in attacks on the Zaporizhzhia district and the regional capital.
Russian forces conducted 22 airstrikes on communities including Zarichne, Lisne, Liubytske, and more than a dozen other villages. A massive drone campaign saw 521 unmanned aerial vehicles — predominantly FPV drones — strike Zaporizhzhia city and 26 other settlements. Artillery barrages numbering 219 strikes pounded a further string of towns and villages, while two multiple-launch rocket system attacks hit Charyvne and Huliaipolske. Authorities recorded 30 reports of damaged infrastructure, residential buildings, and vehicles.
Russian drones struck the city of Sloviansk in the Donetsk region, damaging two apartment buildings and sparking a fire in a public building. No casualties were reported.
The attack posed acute dangers not only to residents but to emergency responders. Firefighters working to contain the blaze were forced to repeatedly retreat to cover as the threat of follow-up strikes persisted. Despite operating under constant danger, crews ultimately succeeded in extinguishing the fire.
