Zelensky Counts 1,600 Glide Bombs and 2,300 Drones in a Week as Weekend Strikes Kill Four Near Dnipro

Volodymyr Zelensky gave Sunday's accounting of the war in three numbers. In the past week, he said, Russia launched roughly 1,600 guided aerial bombs, almost 2,300 attack drones and 48 missiles, including ballistic ones, at Ukraine, as the Kyiv Post reported citing Ukrinform. The figures are Ukrainian and cannot be independently verified, but the damage they describe was reported on the ground by local officials.

The weekend's worst single toll came in the east. Overnight strikes damaged thermal power plants, substations, coal mines, grain silos and shops across nine regions, according to the same report.

What happened in Dnipropetrovsk region?

Four people were killed and 22 injured on Saturday night, authorities said, in Euronews' account. Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the regional military administration, said Russian forces used drones and aerial bombs in more than 20 strikes across three districts around Dnipro. A drone strike on Synelnykove was reported to have killed four civilians and wounded 22, among them an 11-year-old girl, the Kyiv Post said.

Homes, apartment blocks, shops and cars were destroyed in the Synelnykove district, and infrastructure was damaged in Dnipro itself. A private house was hit in the Nikopol district.

Where else were civilians hit?

In Vinnytsia, in west-central Ukraine, a drone struck a five-story residential building, injuring six people and forcing the evacuation of a neighbouring nursing home. In Kharkiv, Russian forces hit a construction hypermarket and then struck the emergency crews who arrived, a pattern known as a double-tap strike. Euronews did not say how many responders were hurt, and the total number of injured in its report stood at 28.