Lede: Separately, at least eight people were killed in Ukrainian attacks on a Russian-controlled area.
Employees of DTEK energy company work to restore power supply after a residential area was hit by a Russian missile strike in the Kyiv region, Ukraine on July 25, 2026 [Alina Smutko/Reuters]
At least 11 people have been killed in Russian and Ukrainian drone strikes on Ukraine, including children at a holiday camp in a Russian-held area in the east.
Overnight on Friday, at least eight people, including two children, were killed in a suspected Ukrainian attack on holiday camps in a Russian-held part of Zaporizhia, according to regional governor Yevgeny Balitsky.
Occupying authorities said the strike hit the seaside village of Kyrylivka on the Azov Sea, which fell to Russian forces shortly after the war began. Ukraine did not immediately comment on the attack.
Balitsky accused Ukraine of “deliberately” targeting civilians and said that 14 other people, including three children, were wounded in the strike.
In Ukraine’s Sumy region, bordering Russia, a large fire broke out after a Russian drone struck a civilian facility, Oleh Hryhorov, head of the regional military administration, said on Saturday.
Three drivers for the private Ukrainian postal and courier service Nova Poshta were killed in that attack, he added.
The strikes come hours after Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned in his evening address late on Friday that intelligence believed a large-scale Russian attack on Ukraine was imminent.
Meanwhile, Romania’s defence ministry on Saturday said its forces “safely shot down” a drone breaching its airspace in an “unpopulated area” near the Ukrainian border
