Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles in an overnight attack that killed three people in Ukraine's Dnipro and the nearby region on Saturday, Ukrainian officials said.
Moscow's troops launched 235 drones and 27 missiles, damaging residential and commercial buildings and causing fires, the Ukrainian Air Force said. It said in a statement that 10 missiles and 25 attack drones hit nine sites. The rest of the drones and missiles were brought down, the Air Force said.
"A terrible night. A massive combined attack on the region,"
Serhiy Lysak, the Dnipropetrovsk regional governor, said on the Telegram app.
He said three people were killed in the attacks and six others were wounded in the city of Dnipro and the nearby region.
Lysak posted pictures showing firefighters battling fires, a residential building with smashed windows, and charred cars.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed retaliatory strikes.
"Russian military enterprises, Russian logistics, and Russian airports should feel that Russia’s own war is now hitting them back with real consequences," Zelenskyy said on the Telegram app.
‘Real peace’
Ukraine's attacks on Russia have heated up in recent months, with Moscow and Kiev exchanging swarms of drones and fierce fighting raging along more than 1,000 kilometres of the frontline.
On the other hand, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Saturday that peace talks and a settlement in Ukraine have never been on the real agenda of the West.
If the West wanted "real peace" in Ukraine, it would stop supplying Kiev with weapons, Zakharova said in comments reported by TASS news agency.
Earlier, in her weekly briefing on Thursday, she had declined to comment on the talks that were held in Istanbul between Russian and Ukrainian officials on Wednesday.
