Three killed in overnight Russian strikes on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions

Two people were killed and another two injured in an airstrike on the city of Zaporizhzhia in southeastern Ukraine on Monday, Zaporizhzhia Governor Ivan Fedorov said on Tuesday morning.

The Russian military attacked a hotel in the city at about 11pm, killing a 38-year-old woman and her 8-year-old son. Her husband and 12-year-old daughter were injured, the latter seriously, Fedorov wrote.

A second Russian airstrike on the city of Dnipro, in central Ukraine, killed one person and injured six, according to Dnipropetrovsk Governor Serhiy Lysak.

A woman who was seriously injured after a drone crashed into her apartment in the city of Saratov, in Russia’s Volga region, on Thursday, has died in hospital, Russian state-owned news agency TASS reported.

As well as the 38-storey Volga Sky apartment building being targeted in the Ukrainian drone strike, another drone hit a residential building near an airfield in the nearby city of Engels.

The Kapotnya oil refinery in Moscow has been forced to suspend operations at its Euro+ unit, which accounts for about half of its total capacity, after a large-scale drone attack on 1 September caused a fire, Reuters wrote on Monday.

According to Reuters, the plant requires significant repairs to come back online, which could take five or six days. The refinery processed a total of 11.6 million tonnes of crude oil in 2023, according to Reuters.