Ukrainian strikes hit Perm industrial plant and border regions, Russian officials say

Overnight Ukrainian drone attacks killed four people in Russia's Belgorod region and one in Lipetsk, and damaged an industrial site in the Perm region of the Ural Mountains, officials said on Sunday. In the city of Belgorod, near the border with Ukraine, an attack killed three people and injured 13, according to the regional governor, Alexander Shuvayev. The strike damaged 30 apartment buildings, 35 cars, four houses, three administrative buildings, eight commercial premises and three social facilities, he said.

In a separate incident on Sunday morning, one person was killed and another injured when a Ukrainian drone struck a car in the village of Voznesenovka near the town of Shebekino, local authorities said. A drone attack on the Perm region damaged an industrial facility and injured five of its workers, the regional governor, Dmitry Makhonin, said on Sunday. Emergency services attended the scene and the injured received medical help, he said on the state-backed MAX messaging app, without giving further detail on the nature of the damage.

Russia's Defence Ministry, meanwhile, said its drones had struck a cargo vessel bound for the Black Sea port of Chornomorsk during an overnight attack, claiming the ship was being used to supply the Ukrainian army. Russian forces also hit a logistics centre, a distribution centre and a logistics terminal in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, which the ministry said had been used to store and distribute dual-use cargo for the Ukrainian military. Reuters could not independently verify the ministry's information.

Later on Sunday, the governor of the Lipetsk region, Igor Artamonov, said a Ukrainian missile strike on an industrial zone in the city of Yelets had killed a security guard and injured a paramedic. The guard worked at one of the industrial facilities on the site, while the paramedic at the medical centre was taken to hospital and was receiving treatment, he said. The governor did not identify the facility that was hit. Reuters could not independently verify the report, and there was no immediate comment from Ukraine.

The strikes are the latest episode in the war that followed Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, now grinding through another year with no prospect of a settlement in sight. Kyiv's forces, defending their country against Moscow's brutal campaign, have increasingly brought the fighting to Russian soil, targeting military and industrial infrastructure that sustains the Kremlin's assault. Ukrainian officials have consistently said they have the right to strike back at the aggressor, even as Russian authorities portray such attacks as indiscriminate. The World House continues to document the consequences of Russia's aggression and stands with the Ukrainian people in their resistance.