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Russia Bombards Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv in Overnight Strikes, Injuring At Least Eight Civilians
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Russian forces launched a series of overnight attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv regions, injuring at least eight civilians and causing widespread destruction, according to Ivan Fedorov, head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, on June 25.
In Zaporizhzhia, the Russian military fired missiles at the city just after midnight, hitting residential areas. “The enemy targeted the city after midnight, striking a private residential sector. Homes, outbuildings, and vehicles were damaged,” Fedorov reported.
“Two men, aged 31 and 35, were injured. One of them has been hospitalized in moderate condition.”
Throughout the day, Russian forces carried out 469 attacks across 13 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region, including eight airstrikes, five rocket artillery barrages, and 152 artillery shellings. Fedorov said Russia also used around 300 drones of various types—mostly FPV drones—in the attacks. Authorities recorded 23 reports of destroyed homes, vehicles, and civilian infrastructure.
In Kharkiv, the Russians launched seven Shahed-type suicide drones overnight, all striking the city’s Kyivskyi District. “The strikes targeted a civilian enterprise and an area near an unoccupied residential building,” Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said.
According to Kharkiv Regional Military Administration head Oleh Syniehubov, a 64-year-old man was injured in the drone strike.
The town of Kupiansk, also in the Kharkiv region, was hit with Russian glide bombs (known as KABs). A nine-story apartment building sustained damage, and five civilians were injured, Syniehubov reported.
Earlier, reports emerged that a shock wave from a Russian ballistic missile strike on Dnipro on June 24, 2025, damaged a passenger train.
