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Russian forces attacked residential buildings, data centers, foreign vessels and other civilian infrastructure across Ukraine overnight on September 29, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
“Simply terrorists who, day and night, strike at life, at our people, at purely civilian facilities,” Zelenskyy said.
In Kyiv, the overnight strikes damaged the Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi railway depot, data and business centers, as well as residential buildings.
In Odesa region, Russian strikes hit an educational facility, a dormitory and two foreign vessels.
Several other Ukrainian regions were also targeted, including Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Sumy, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Zhytomyr, Volyn and Rivne regions.
Zelenskyy said the attacks damaged energy facilities, substations, civilian businesses and residential buildings. Emergency and recovery crews have been working continuously to deal with the consequences of the strikes.
Odesa and Zhytomyr regions hit
Overnight and in the morning, Russian forces also attacked Odesa and the surrounding region. Eight people were injured, while a civilian business was destroyed and a port, a lyceum and an animal shelter were damaged.
Around 10 strikes were reported in Zhytomyr region. Transport and fuel infrastructure, as well as civilian businesses, were damaged in Zhytomyr, Korosten, Zviahel and Ovruch.
The latest attacks come amid a continuing Russian campaign of missile and drone strikes against Ukrainian cities and critical infrastructure.
