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In Zaporizhzhia in southeastern Ukraine, a Russian drone attack
Friday night hit a shopping center, causing a fire that spread
over a 500-square-meter area, causing several injuries, regional
head Ivan Fedorov said.
A major Russian attack Friday on a site near Kyiv that hosted a
defense industry event killed at least 10 people and wounded
nearly 100 others.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned in his evening
address late Friday that intelligence assessments indicated that
Russia was preparing missiles for a large attack on Ukraine,
saying there were indications that this could happen in the next
48 hours.
Meanwhile, Romania’s defense ministry said Saturday its forces
“safely shot down” a drone breaching its airspace in an
“unpopulated area” near the Ukrainian border. Writing on
Facebook, Romanian President Nicușor Dan said the drone was
“shot down by a Romanian pilot from an F-16 aircraft.”
Saturday’s interception came after a drone was shot down around
Padina, northeast of the Romanian capital, Bucharest, on Friday.
A series of drone incursions from both Russia and Ukraine have
hit Romania and other NATO members since Moscow launched its
full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
In June, a Ukrainian maritime drone that was being used in the
war exploded at the Black Sea port of Constanta, while three
other sea drones exploded outside the port. No one was hurt.
A month earlier, a Russian drone that was part of an attack on
Ukraine went astray and struck an apartment building in eastern
Romania, injuring two people.
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