Russia launched over night overnight more than 620 drones and missiles against Ukraine, especially in the west of the country, President Volodyr Zelensky and the Ukrainian army announced on Saturday. The various regional authorities report at least four dead and injured.
Russian air strikes against Ukraine have still intensified in recent weeks, and Moscow has broken records in number of vehicles fired every week, provided by a defense industry that runs at full speed.
Saturday, Volodymyr Zelensky wrote that 26 cruise missiles and 597 attack drones were launched, more than half of which were [Shaheds]
Iranian manufacturing.
The Ukrainian Air Force said it had killed more than half of these devices, or 319 Shahed type drones and 25 missiles. Some 258 lures drones, used to deceive Ukraine’s anti -aircraft defenses, have been lost or eliminated, she said.
A missile and twenty drones have touched Five places
she said without further details.
First responders are hard at work on the site of an apartment building damaged during Russian drone and missile strikes in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, July 12, 2025.
Photo : Reuters / STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE OF UKRAI
West of targeted Ukraine
These drone and missile strikes left at least 2 dead and 20 injured in Chernivtsi, western city, according to Volodymyr Zelensky.
Western Ukraine is generally preserved compared to the areas of the East and South, where the fights take place.
Six other people, including an 11 -year -old boy, were injured by nighttime attacks in another western city, LVIV, according to the regional administration.
Two people were killed by a bomb in the Dnipropetrovsk region (center-east), and three injured in the city of Kharkiv (northeast), according to local authorities.
The Russian Defense Ministry said it had led grouped strike
against Companies of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex
In Lviv, Kharkiv and Loutsk, and against a military aerodrome.
The objective of the strike has been achieved. All designated targets have been destroyed
said the ministry in a statement.
A resident removes the glass from a broken window from his apartment which was damaged during the Russian drone and missile strikes in Lviv, Ukraine, on July 12, 2025.
Photo : Reuters / Stringer
Zelensky calls on her allies to act
Volodymyr Zelensky asked his allies to send more than signals
To stop Russia.
He estimated that The pace of Russian air strikes requires rapid decisions, and it can be braked now by sanctions
.
He notably called to punish those who help Russia produce drones and take advantage of oil
. Oil exports are crucial to the Russian economy.
The European Union has prohibited imports from Russian oil, but continues to buy Russian gas, France being one of the largest buyers within the Union.
Volodymyr Zelensky also urged its partners to strengthen Ukrainian anti -aircraft defense, which is used to counter Russian strikes.
This night of bombing occurs after the United States has reaffirmed its support for Ukraine, Mr. Zelensky who confirmed Thursday that he received Concrete dates
For the delivery of new weapons from Donald Trump.
The American president, for his part, mentioned An important declaration
that he could do Russia on Monday, after saying himself disappointed
By his counterpart Vladimir Putin, with whom he had resumed contact on his return to the White House.
Ukraine and many American elected officials, including in Mr. Trump’s camp, push the president to adopt new sanctions against Russia, to which he has so far refused, saying that he wanted to give diplomacy a chance.
Negotiations with a view to a diplomatic outcome to the conflict are in the dead end.
