During the night of May 13, Russian forces launched another massive drone attack against Ukraine. The Dnipropetrovsk region suffered the heaviest losses, where strikes killed eight people and injured eleven others. In total, Russia launched 139 drones of various types.
Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration Oleksandr Hanzha, regional council chairman Mykola Lukashuk, Ukraine’s Air Force, and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported the consequences of the attacks.
Details
According to Ukraine’s Air Force, Russian forces attacked Ukraine using Shahed drones, Gerbera drones, Italmas drones, and decoy UAVs launched from Russian territory and occupied Crimea. Ukrainian air defence forces shot down or suppressed 111 aerial targets. However, officials recorded 20 strikes across 13 locations. The attack was still ongoing in the morning.
Dnipropetrovsk region: highest number of casualties
In Kryvyi Rih, the strike killed a 65-year-old woman and a 43-year-old man. Four other people suffered injuries, and doctors hospitalized three of them. One victim remains in critical condition.
In the Synelnykove district, in the Dubovykivka community, Russian attacks killed four more people. Three others suffered injuries. Authorities in the Mykolaivka community also reported two deaths.
Russian forces also shelled communities in the Nikopol district. Three people suffered injuries there, including two 16-year-old teenagers.
Kharkiv region
In Kharkiv and the surrounding region, Russian drones attacked infrastructure facilities. The strikes caused fires and damaged civilian infrastructure.
Odesa region
Russian forces targeted port and industrial infrastructure in Odesa region. Officials are still assessing the scale of the destruction.
Poltava region
In Poltava, a Russian drone struck an electrical substation. More than 7,000 residents lost electricity after the attack.
Zelenskyy said Russia continues deliberately targeting civilian and railway infrastructure:
“Right now, there are more than a hundred Russian drones in our skies, and there may be additional waves of drone attacks during the day. Russia continues its strikes and does so brazenly — deliberately targeting our railway infrastructure and civilian facilities in cities.”
He also stressed the importance of continued support for Ukraine:
“It is important to support Ukraine and not stay silent about Russia’s war. Every time the topic of the war disappears from the top headlines, it encourages Russia to become even more brutal.”
Context
In recent days, Russia has intensified massive drone attacks on Ukrainian regions after the end of the short “ceasefire” previously arranged with US mediation.
Earlier, The Ukrainian Review reported that during the night of May 12, Russian forces launched a large-scale drone attack against Ukraine, with explosions reported in Kyiv and the surrounding region, as well as in Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Chernihiv, and Zhytomyr regions.
