A couple was killed and their two children, aged 15 and 11, were injured when a Russian drone struck their home in Zaporizhzhia overnight on Friday — part of a 154-drone barrage that ranks among the war’s largest single-night attacks.
Ukrainian air defences intercepted 148 of the incoming drones, according to the Ukrainian Air Force. Five got through, hitting four locations. Falling debris from downed aircraft struck seven more. Four other people were wounded in the Zaporizhzhia strike, regional head Ivan Fedorov confirmed Saturday morning.
The swarm included roughly 90 Iranian-designed Shahed drones alongside Gerbera and Italmas models, launched from five directions: Oryol, Kursk, Millerovo, and Primorsko-Akhtarsk in Russia, and Gvardiyske in occupied Crimea. Power was knocked out to some 430,000 consumers across the Chernihiv region after energy infrastructure took damage.
The attack came as a Ukrainian delegation travelled to the United States for a fresh round of U.S.-brokered peace negotiations. Ukraine’s forces simultaneously struck the Saratov oil refinery inside Russia, a facility that produces fuel and lubricants for the Russian military.
Day 1,487 of the full-scale invasion. The numbers do the talking.