Iryna Chechotkina, a co-founder of online retailer Rozetka, confirmed that one employee died and seven others were hurt after a Russian drone struck a warehouse in Brovary, Kyiv Oblast. Debris from the attack caused damage, but the precise extent remains unclear.
Governor Oleksandr Hanzha reported a separate incident near Nikopol in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, where a passenger bus was hit, leaving eight injured. Among the casualties was a 16-year-old boy, who remains under medical care.
Ukrainian Air Force claimed to have shot down 109 of the 133 drones launched by Russian forces overnight. The remaining 24 drones struck 19 locations, with debris falling in three additional areas. The Air Force said Shahed-type attack drones were among those launched.
In Mykolaiv Oblast, Governor Heorhii Reshetilov said five people were injured as Russian drones targeted the region’s port and transport infrastructure. The intent appears to be to disrupt logistics and trade corridors.
A FPV-drone hit a mail truck near Novhorod-Siverskyi in Chernihiv Oblast, wounding the driver, according to Governor Viacheslav Chaus. The attack disrupted local deliveries but caused no additional harm.
Kharkiv Oblast saw ten people injured, including three children. Governor Oleh Syniehubov said the attacks focused on residential areas and public infrastructure. In Sumy Oblast, eight people were hurt, including a 12-year-old boy.
Kherson Oblast suffered the highest number of casualties. Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said Russian forces targeted 35 settlements, including the city of Kherson. One person was killed and 31 injured, with three children among the casualties.
Druzhkivka in Donetsk Oblast saw two people killed and four injured, according to Governor Vadym Filashkin. The attacks continued to spread across multiple regions, with Zaporizhzhia Oblast also affected, killing one man and injuring another.
Ukrainian drone strikes inside Russia killed at least five people overnight in attacks that targeted military and civilian infrastructure. Russia said Moscow's forces downed 635 drones in the assault. Ukrainian drones rained down on numerous military, energy and civilian infrastructure sites deep inside Russia on Sunday, killing at least eight people overnight. Russia's Defense Ministry said its forces downed 635 drones over the course of the attacks. Two people were killed in the city of Engels on the Volga River when drones hit residential buildings. Another apartment complex in nearby Saratov City was also damaged. Three people were reported killed and two injured in the Udmurtia region (1,300 kilometers from Ukraine), and another three killed and five injured in Belgorod according to local officials. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday said Kyiv had targeted an oil refinery in Saratov and a military base that is home to Russian long-range bombers in Engels. Zelenskyy said the attacks were his country's answer to Russian aggression and thanked Ukrainian forces for taking the war "back to where it came from." Kyiv said fires had damaged both sites and that its forces had also struck an oil depot in the western Kaluga region. Unverified video uploaded to social media sites purported to show fires burning at the Saratov oil facility. Why is Ukraine targeting Wildberries warehouses? Ukraine again targeted the online retailer Wildberries in its attacks, striking a logistics warehouse in Samara — more than 800 kilometers (500 miles) from Ukraine's front-line positions. Sunday's attacks on Wildberries were just the latest onslaught on the retail giant, which Kyiv says aids Russia's military. Kyiv has attacked nearly a dozen Wildberries warehouses since July 18. No casualties were reported at the facility and local management said that a fire at the site had been brought under control. Although the number of drones that Russia claims to have downed cannot be confirmed, the figure is indicative of the scale of Kyiv's effort to strike Russia deep inside its own territory as it defends itself against an army that launched a full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022. The Wildberries attacks are seen as an attempt to bring President Vladimir Putin's war home to Russia's citizens, applying pressure to the country's already anaemic economy in hopes of finally ending Moscow's ongoing invasion. Acting Governor Olga Abramova described a drone strike on a car in the Udmurtia region as "monstrous in its senselessness." Governor Roman Busargin confirmed civilian infrastructure in Saratov and Engels was hit. In the Belgorod region, three people were killed and five wounded in Ukrainian strikes, the local task force reported. In Ukraine, one person died on Sunday as a Russian guided bomb struck a residential building in Zaporizhzhia. Another attack on Sunday killed one person and set fire to a postal terminal on the outskirts of Kharkiv. Both sides are increasingly using long-range missiles and drones to attack each other far beyond the front lines. Data compiled by AFP from Ukrainian Air Force reports revealed that Russia fired a record 376 missiles at Ukraine in July, more than double the total launched in June, with most targeted at Kyiv. The intensified ballistic campaign killed more than 170 civilians between July 1 and July 27 according to UN figures, culminating in an overnight barrage on Friday that killed at least nine people and wounded 33 in the Ukrainian capital. During that attack, Russia launched 220 aerial weapons, including 35 missiles, 27 of them ballistic, and 185 drones. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said air defence units intercepted 154 drones but only one ballistic missile, because of a critical shortage of US-supplied Patriot interceptor missiles.
Last gas station between Kharkiv, Poltava destroyed as Russian attacks kill 9, injure 76 over past day Russian forces have destroyed all gas stations along the highway between Poltava and Kharkiv, with the last one struck in the town of Valky on July 26, according to regional officials. Over recent months, while Ukraine's long-range strikes have caused a fuel crisis across Russia and the occupied territories of Ukraine, with attacks on refineries, Russia has quietly been systematically targeting gas stations. Speaking on live TV, Kharkiv Oblast Council member Oleksandr Skoryk urged motorists to plan to have sufficient fuel in reserve ahead of journeys along the affected part of the highway. The stretch of road, part of the pan-European E40 highway, is also one of the two main logistics routes from Kyiv to front-line areas in eastern Ukraine. According to Skoryk, of around 200 gas stations destroyed by Russian strikes in Ukraine, 80 were in Kharkiv Oblast. For now, attacks on gas stations have failed to induce a larger fuel crisis in Ukraine, which has built up a modern and diversified fuel market. Kharkiv Oblast Governor Oleh Syniehybov on July 27 denied the reports that there are no operational gas stations left on the highway from Kharkiv to Poltava. He also added that there is no fuel shortage in the region. In total, Russian attacks across Ukraine killed at least nine Ukrainian civilians and injured a further 76 over the past day, regional authorities reported in the morning. In a rare daytime attack, Russian forces struck a supermarket in the northern city of Chernihiv, killing two people, including a 10-year-old girl. Another 25, including four other children, were injured, said Governor Viacheslav Chaus, who announced a day of mourning for July 27. A total of two people were killed and 13 wounded in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, as Russian forces attacked 45 settlements in the front-line region, according to governor Ivan Fedorov. In Kharkiv, a 40-year-old woman was killed, with 22 other people injured across the region, governor Oleh Syniehubov said. Russian forces attacked ships and port infrastructure in Mykolaiv overnight, killing two men aged 50 and 48 at the site, and damaging three civilian ships, regional authorities said. In a separate attack, two civilians were injured in an overnight attack with a Molniya-type drone. A total of nine people were injured in northeastern Sumy Oblast, regional authorities said. Three civilians were wounded in front-line Donetsk Oblast, including two in Kramatorsk and one more in the largely-destroyed city of Dobropillia, governor Vadym Filashkin said. Two civilians, including a six-year-old boy, were injured in Russian attacks on front-line Nikopol in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha said.