Russian strikes across Ukraine killed at least six people, officials said Saturday, most of them in an attack on a residential building in the eastern city of Dnipro.
"The Russians' tactics remain unchanged: attack drones, cruise missiles and a significant amount of ballistic missiles," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
"Most of the targets are ordinary infrastructure in cities. Residential buildings, energy facilities and businesses have been damaged," he said.
Four people were killed and 27 wounded in one overnight strike on an apartment block in Dnipro, Oleksandr Ganzha, head of Drinpropetrovsk regional military administration said on Telegram.
A later strike on another apartment building in the city, killed one person and wounded seven, he said.
"The Russians hit the same residential neighborhood as the one targeted overnight," Ganzha said.
In the southern region of Zaporizhzhia, one person was killed and four wounded by a Russian drone hit on a civilian minibus, the head of the region's administration, Ivan Fedorov, said on Telegram.
Zelensky said the incessant Russian strikes on civilian targets required a strong response from Ukraine's allies, especially in Europe.
"Every such strike should serve as a reminder to our partners that the situation requires immediate and firm action, and the rapid strengthening of our air defense," he said.
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He urged the European Union to impose even more sanctions on Russia.
The plea came two days after EU leaders approved a long-stalled 20th sanctions round against Russia that target the banking sector and add new restrictions on exports of Russian oil.
That package had been blocked for months by Hungary's Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, who was voted from power two weeks ago. The EU also approved a 90-billion-euro ($105 billion) loan to Ukraine intended to strengthen its defenses and cover state expenditures for the 2026-2027 period.
Almost every day since the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, civilians have been killed in Ukraine in Russian bombardments.
Ukrainian drone attacks over the past 24 hours injured one person in Russia's Kursk region, which borders Ukraine, Governor Alexander Khinshtein announced Saturday on Max.
The governor for Russia's neighboring Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said a woman was killed and a man seriously wounded in a drone attack on a car, and a man driving a tractor was wounded in another strike.
Diplomatic efforts to end Europe's deadliest conflict since World War II are at a standstill with US mediation efforts diverted by the outbreak of the Middle East war in February.
