Russian strike on Ukrainian town kills 7, Zelensky asks allies for more weapons

Both sides have made extensive use of drones, including larger self-detonating devices with ranges of up to hundreds of kilometers, throughout the conflict that began in February 2022.

Ukraine has stepped up its attacks on Russian territory this year, targeting both energy sites it says supply the Russian military, as well as towns and villages just across the border.

Fighting in Ukraine intensified in several directions, with Russia launching offensives in several directions, taking advantage of the fact that kyiv was in a weak position militarily.

Four dead in eastern Ukraine

kyiv's military said on Saturday that Moscow was attacking from several directions and that “the total number of hostile attacks along the entire front line now stands at 90.”

Ukrainian authorities reported deadly attacks early Saturday that killed four people in eastern villages.

“In the village of Zarichne, the Russians killed three people,” Vadym Filashkin, the head of the Donetsk region, said on social networks.

The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office later said that another person, a resident of the village of New York in eastern Ukraine, “was also fatally injured.”

New York has been under intense attack since mid-June as Russian forces advance toward the city of Toretsk further north.

In the central city of Dnipro, police said they found a woman who had been killed the day before in an attack that also injured 13 people.

“Police have identified a woman killed in a missile attack on the city of Dnipro as a 76-year-old resident of a destroyed building,” the Ukrainian National Police said in a statement.

The number of injured is 13, “including an infant and a pregnant woman.”

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