Nine killed as Russia and Ukraine trade drone and missile salvos | News of the Russian-Ukrainian war

Ukraine is highly vulnerable to the Russian military because of the shortage of Patriot weapons.

Russian drones and missiles killed four people in Ukraine overnight, while Ukraine’s airstrikes on Russia and Russian-controlled areas in Ukraine killed five.

Three people were killed in a Russian attack on Ukraine’s central Dnipropetrovsk region overnight, including two on an “industrial business” in the city of Kryvyi Rih, authorities said on Sunday.

In the southern city of Kherson, a drone attack killed a 48-year-old man, Mayor Yaroslav Shanko said.

Russia has escalated in recent weeks, taking advantage of Ukraine’s severe shortage of Patriot air defense systems, which have made it unable to shoot down missiles flying at several times the speed of sound.

NATO countries pledged at their meeting in Ankara last week to provide more Patriot weapons to Ukraine, and President Donald Trump said he was ready to give Kyiv permission to manufacture US weapons in the country.

At least 25 leaders of the so-called “Coalition of the Willing” are due to meet in Paris on Monday to discuss how to help Ukraine and pressure Russia to end the war.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian terrorists on the Russian town of Enerhodar killed four people and injured four others, Alexei Likhachev, head of the Russian nuclear agency Rosatom, said on Sunday. Enerhodar, home of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, fell by Russian forces within weeks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

A prolonged airstrike by Ukrainian jets killed another person in Russia’s Samara region, officials said.