4 people killed, multiple others injured in Russia and Ukraine as they trade aerial attacks

Russia and Ukraine traded aerial attacks overnight resulting in two deaths in each country and a great number of people wounded on both sides according to authorities On the battlefield the Russian military revealed Saturday that it seized the village of Zelenyi Hai in the eastern Donetsk region that Moscow illegally annexed but only partially controls and the village of Maliivka in the Dnipro region There was no immediate comment on the claim from Ukrainian leaders Ukraine s southern Dnipro and northeastern Sumy regions came under combined rocket and drone attack local administrators published Head of the Dnipro regional administration Serhii Lysak announced at least two people had died and five were wounded in the barrage In the city of Dnipro a multi-story building and business were damaged during the strike and outside of the city a fire engulfed a shopping center In Sumy the military administration commented three people were injured On Saturday Russian drones hit a central square in the city of Sumy and damaged the building of the regional administration Kharkiv sustained an intense aerial bombardment overnight Ukraine s State Urgency Situations Utility mentioned six people were hurt in Kharkiv including four rescuers who were wounded in a double tap strike where a second attack targets emergency workers trying to help people wounded in the initial attack According to the daily air force account in total Russia targeted Ukraine with drones and missiles overnight It explained according to preliminary details air defense and electronic warfare took down or intercepted drones and missiles but hits from missiles and drones had been recorded in nine locations Russia s Defense Ministry on Saturday claimed that it successfully struck military facilities in Ukraine that manufacture components for missile weapons as well as produce ammunition and explosives The claim could not be independently verified Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy explained in an online announcement that there can be absolutely no silence in response to such strikes and Ukrainian long-range drones ensure this Russian military enterprises Russian logistics Russian airports must feel that the Russian war has real consequences for them Zelenskyy wrote In Russia bureaucrats commented that Ukrainian drones targeted multiple regions overnight A drone attack on the Rostov region on the edge with Ukraine killed two people acting governor Yuri Slyusar published In the neighboring Stavropol region drones hit an unspecified industrial facility governor Vladimir Vladimirov commented on Telegram He added that the attack sparked a brief fire but didn t specify where exactly Vladimirov declared cellphone internet in the region was restricted because of the attack a measure government regularly take across the vast country that critics say helps widespread online censorship An unconfirmed media statement explained videos posted online by local residents manifested that the drones hit the Signal radio plant that makes jamming equipment The Associated Press was unable to verify the claim Drones also targeted Moscow but were shot down according to Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and an unspecified industrial facility in the Penza region southeast of the capital Gov Oleg Melnichenko disclosed Russia s Defense Ministry declared that its air defenses shot down or intercepted a total of Ukrainian drones including over the Bryansk region on the margin with Ukraine over the Rostov region six over the annexed Crimean Peninsula four over the Azov sea three over the Black Sea and a inadequate others over the Orlov Tula and Belgorod regions In Russia s Ingushetia region in the North Caucasus a woman and three children were injured after a drone fell on a private house regional healthcare executives noted Follow AP s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https apnews com hub russia-ukraine