Russia hits Zaporizhzhia as Ukraine steps up mass drone strikes — SkimNews
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- Russia struck Zaporizhzhia and nine other Ukrainian regions late Sunday, hitting apartment blocks, a university and a shopping mall, wounding five people, according to Zelenskyy.
- Ukraine fired more than 1,000 drones at Russia from Saturday to Sunday, including hundreds aimed at Moscow during Russia's three-day parliamentary election; Russia's Defence Ministry said it shot down 244 of the drones overnight.
- In northeastern Ukraine's Kharkiv region, a Russian drone struck a home on Monday, killing a 45-year-old woman and seriously injuring her 13-year-old son, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said.
- Trump called the war "ridiculous" on Monday and said Moscow had "unfortunately lost control" of its diesel oil production, weeks after publicly urging Zelenskyy to stop the refinery strikes over global price spikes.
- Moldova temporarily closed part of its northern airspace after detecting an "aerial object" shortly after midnight, the latest in a series of incursions; drone violations into Romania's airspace have also risen sharply.
- Zelenskyy said he expects to meet Trump at this week's UN General Assembly in New York; Putin is not due to attend.
Why it matters: The mutual drone escalation — 1,000+ Ukrainian drones hitting Russian refineries while Russia bombs apartment blocks in Zaporizhzhia and homes in Kharkiv — shows the war widening even as Trump publicly calls it "ridiculous" and prepares to meet Zelenskyy at the UN. European pressure on Putin has produced no signal he is ready to negotiate, and drone debris is now spilling into NATO-adjacent Moldova and Romania.
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