Russian strikes on Ukraine, 5 killed and 30 injured

Russian drone strikes on Ukraine overnight killed five people and injured 30 more, Ukrainian officials said on Saturday.

The attacks came as Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy travelled to Istanbul for talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He will also meet Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox



Christians.

Russia fired 286 drones at Ukraine overnight, of which 260 were downed, the Ukrainian Air Force said in an online statement.

Five people, three women and two men, were killed in the city of Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk region, and 19 others, including a 14-year-old girl, were wounded, head of the regional military administration Oleksandr Hanzha said. The attack damaged market stalls and a shop.