At least 11 people have been killed in Ukraine and Russia as holiday camps hit | News of the Russian-Ukrainian war

Separately, at least 8 people were killed in an attack in Ukraine on territory controlled by Russia.

At least 11 people have been killed in Russian-Ukrainian airstrikes in Ukraine, including children at a holiday camp in Russia’s eastern region.

On Friday night, at least eight people, including two children, were killed in an attack by suspected Ukrainians on a holiday camp in the Zaporizhia region of Russia, according to regional governor Yevgeny Balitsky.

Officials said the strike hit the coastal village of Kyrylivka on the Sea of ​​Azov, which fell to Russian forces shortly after the war began. Ukraine did not immediately comment on the attack.

Mr Balitsky accused Ukraine of “deliberately” targeting civilians and said 14 people, including three children, were injured in the protests.

In the Sumy region of Ukraine, on the border with Russia, a large fire broke out after a Russian drone hit a civilian area, Oleh Hryhorov, the head of the regional military administration, said on Saturday.

Three drivers of Ukraine’s private postal service Nova Poshta were killed in the attack, he added.

The strike comes hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned in an evening speech on Friday that intelligence officials believed a major Russian attack on Ukraine was imminent.

Meanwhile, Romania’s Defense Ministry said on Saturday that its forces had “safely shot down” a drone that was violating its airspace “in an uninhabited area” near the border with Ukraine.

In a statement on social media, Romanian President Nicusor Dan said the plane “was shot down by a Romanian pilot from an F-16”.

The eviction came the next day suspected Russian plane was shot around Padina, northeast of the Romanian capital, Bucharest.

Several drones from Russia and Ukraine have targeted Romania and other NATO members since Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

In June, a Ukrainian naval plane exploded in the Black Sea port of Constanta, while three other naval drones exploded outside the port. No injuries were reported.

A month earlier, a Russian plane bound for Ukraine went astray and crashed into a building in eastern Romania, injuring two people.

There has been a threat of civilian casualties in the area Russia-Ukraine war this summer, although both sides refuse to target civilians.

On Friday, a drone attack hit a shopping mall in southeastern Ukraine in Zaporizhzhia, causing a fire and several injuries, regional director Ivan Fedorov said.

A different attacks At a security operation near Kyiv, at least 10 people were killed and about 100 injured.