RUSSIA – On Monday, both Russia and Ukraine claimed to have been attacked by drones, with 6 fatalities reported.

Sergey Aksyonov, the head of Crimea said on Telegram that several facilities on a sanatorium in the resort town of Foros were damaged by a Ukrainian drone attack.

Aksyonov said a school building in the town was also damaged in the attack, and that fragments from downed drones caused a fire near the resort city of Yalta.

He said three people were killed and 16 others injured in Foros.

Separately, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed its air defenses shot down 114 Ukrainian drones overnight, 10 of which were intercepted over Crimea.

According to the ministry, the strike in the resort area, where, it said, there are no military facilities, took place at approximately 7.30 pm local time (1630GMT). the ministry also called it a “terrorist attack.”

Meanwhile, Zaporizhzhia Governor Ivan Fedorov said three people were killed and two others injured in an attack on the southeastern region’s administrative center.

In a statement on Telegram, Fedorov said the attack took place at about 4.30 am local time (0130GMT), and that at least five aerial bombs had fallen on the city of Zaporizhzhia.

Fedorov said 15 multi-story buildings and 10 private buildings were damaged in the attack. “None of the objects were related to military infrastructure. This was a targeted terror of a peaceful city and its residents,” he said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on US social media company X that search and rescue efforts continued in Zaporizhzhia, and expressed condolences to the families of the victims.

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s air force claimed that its air defenses downed 132 out of 141 drones launched by Russia overnight, as well as reported on the attack in Zaporizhzhia, during which it claimed that the launch of aerial bombs was recorded near the Moscow-controlled city of Tokmak.

Russian Forces Capture New Settlement

Russia claimed on Monday that it took control of another settlement in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region amid its ongoing offensive in the war-torn country’s east.

A statement by the Russian Defense Ministry claimed that its forces captured the village of Kalynivske, situated about 29 kilometers (18 miles) west of the strategic town of Velyka Novosilka.

In January, Russia claimed to have seized Velyka Novosilka in the Donetsk region. The town lies near the junction of Ukraine’s Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Dnipropetrovsk regions.

Kalynivske is located almost 10 km (6.2 miles) west of the tri-junction point, as well as nearly 4 km (2.5 miles) north of the administrative border between Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia.

Ukraine’s General Staff claimed in an earlier statement that Russian forces carried out 20 assaults near nine settlements in the Novopavlivka front over the past day, including the village of Novomykolaivka, which is located about 3 km (1.8 miles) southeast of Kalynivske and was claimed to be captured by Moscow last Friday.