Russia and Ukraine dispute blame as overnight strikes reported to kill 11
Each side pointed to the other after new airstrikes, with Russia saying it intercepted 311 drones overnight, including near Kyiv.
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Russia and Ukraine again traded accusations over deadly overnight airstrikes, with reports putting the death toll at 11, according to Turkish news agency Anadolu.
Russian authorities said air defense units shot down 311 Ukrainian drones overnight and that Russian forces struck what they described as military-industrial facilities in several regions, including near the capital, Kyiv. Moscow has consistently framed such strikes as hitting defense-related production and logistics rather than civilian sites, a characterization Ukraine rejects.
Ukrainian officials blamed Russia for the strikes that resulted in the reported casualties, part of a continuing exchange of long-range attacks that has defined recent months of the war. Neither side's claims about drone numbers, strike targets or casualties could be independently verified.
The reported toll comes amid an ongoing pattern of nightly drone and missile exchanges between the two countries, with both governments regularly issuing competing statements about the scale and targets of each other's attacks.
No independent, consolidated account of the overnight incident was immediately available from either side.
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- Russia, Ukraine trade accusations over overnight airstrikes, killing 11 — Anadolu Agency (Turkey)
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