00:00In a dramatic escalation of conflict, Russia installed officials in the partially occupied
00:28Ukrainian regions of Kherson and Luhansk report that Ukrainian attacks have left at least
00:3527 people dead.
00:37The violence continues as both Russia and Ukraine exchange drone strikes overnight into
00:42Saturday.
00:43In Kherson, a Ukrainian attack on the small town of Zadov on Friday resulted in 22 fatalities
00:50and 15 injuries, according to the Moscow-backed governor Vladimir Saldo.
00:55Saldo claims that Ukrainian forces initially struck the town with a French-made guided
01:01bomb followed by a US-supplied Himmler's missile.
01:06He alleges that the repeat strike was deliberately timed to maximise casualties, hitting residents
01:13who had rushed out to help the injured.
01:16Further east in the Luhansk region, Leonid Pestchnik, the Russia-installed governor,
01:22report that 60 people were wounded in the attack.
01:26Meanwhile, the exchange of drone attacks between Russia and Ukraine shows no signs of abetting.
01:33Russia's defence ministry reported that Ukraine launched a barrage of drones across Russian
01:38territory overnight on Friday.
01:41Russian air defence claimed to have destroyed 25 drones over the southern Koban and Astrakhan
01:47regions, the Western Tula region and also the Moscow-annexed Crimean Peninsula.
01:54For the first time, Ukrainian drones were shot down over north Ossetia, located in north
02:02Kyakassus, about 900 km from the front line in Ukraine's Zaporizhia region.
02:09Russia's Ministry of Defence stated that one drone was destroyed, while regional governor
02:13Sergei Maniolio reported that three drones targeting a military airfield were downed.
02:19On the Ukrainian side, air defences shot down nine out of 13 Russian drones overnight.
02:26The drones were intercepted over the central Poltava region, southeastern Zaporizhia and
02:32Dnipropetrovsk region and the north-eastern Kharkiv region.
02:38Dnipropetrovsk regional governor Sergei Lesk reported that the drone attacks damaged both
02:44commercial and residential buildings.
