Russia Hits Ukraine with 93 Drones and Hypersonic Missile

In the last 24 hours, Russian forces have continued their strikes on Ukraine, using both unmanned aerial vehicles and missiles. On the night of August 20-21, Russia carried out a large-scale air attack on Ukraine.

The Russian Federation launched a massive combined strike on Ukraine, using UAVs, a hypersonic "Zircon" missile, dozens of Kh-101 cruise missiles, and "Kalibr" missiles. A gas distribution station in Pavlohrad near Dnipropetrovsk and main gas infrastructure in the Kharkiv region were hit.

According to official Kyiv sources, Ukrainian air defense shot down 62 unmanned aerial vehicles and one missile. The main directions of the strikes were the Sumy, Odesa, Donetsk, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, and Poltava regions. Notably, Ukraine's western regions were also attacked, including Lviv, Rivne, Lutsk, and Mukachevo.

As a result of the attacks, there are dead and wounded among the civilian population. In the city of Okhtyrka in the Sumy region, 14 people were injured, including a family with children aged 5 months, 4, and 6 years. In the city of Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region, three people were left under the rubble as a result of the bombing. In total, at least 3 civilians were killed and 34 were injured in Ukraine as a result of Russian strikes in the last 24 hours.

Regarding ground operations: According to the Ukrainian side, 128 combat clashes were recorded in the last 24 hours. The most intense situation was in the Pokrovsk direction. Russian forces also registered advances in the Lyman, Siversk, and Velyka Novosilka areas of the Donetsk region and in the Kupyansk district of the Kharkiv region. However, no information was reported about the capture of new settlements during this period.