4 people killed in Russia and Ukraine as countries trade aerial attacks
[July 26, 2025]
Russia and Ukraine traded aerial attacks overnight,
resulting in two deaths in each country, according to officials.
Ukraine’s southern Dnipro and northeastern Sumy regions came under
combined rocket and drone attack, local officials reported. Head of the
Dnipro regional administration Serhii Lysak said 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 in the region a fire engulfed a shopping center.
In Sumy, the military administration said three people were injured.
Kharkiv sustained an intense aerial bombardment overnight with local
authorities reporting Ukraine’s second-largest city was hit by four
guided aerial bombs, two ballistic missiles and 15 drones over a
three-hour period.
In a post on Telegram, Kharkiv mayor Ihor Terekhov said high-rise
residential buildings, local businesses, roads and the communication
network were damaged in the attack. He said at least five people were
injured, including three rescue workers 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 report, in total Russia targeted
Ukraine with 208 drones and 27 missiles overnight. It said according to
preliminary data, air defense and electronic warfare took down or
intercepted 183 drones and 17 missiles but hits from 10 missiles and 25
drones had been recorded in nine locations.
In Russia, officials said that Ukrainian drones targeted multiple
regions overnight. A drone attack on the Rostov region, on the border
with Ukraine, killed two people, acting governor Yuri Slyusar reported.
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Rescuers work at a damaged city hospital that was hit by a Russian
guided air bomb in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, July 25, 2025. (AP
Photo/Andrii Marienko)
In the neighboring Stavropol region, drones hit an unspecified
industrial facility, governor Vladimir Vladimirov said on Telegram.
He added that the attack sparked a brief fire, but didn't specify
where exactly. Vladimirov said cellphone internet in the region was
restricted because of the attack — a measure authorities regularly
take across the vast country that critics say helps widespread
online censorship.
An unconfirmed media report said videos posted online by local
residents showed 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 said.
Russia's Defense Ministry said that its air defenses shot down or
intercepted a total of 54 Ukrainian drones, including 24 over the
Bryansk region on the border with Ukraine, 12 over the Rostov
region, six over the annexed Crimean Peninsula, four over the Azov
sea, three over the Black Sea and a few others over the Orlov, Tula
and Belgorod regions.
Russian civil aviation agency Rosaviatsia overnight briefly halted
flights in and out of airports serving the city of Kaluga, southwest
of Moscow, as well as Vladikavkaz and Grozny in the North Caucasus.
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