Authorities reported a"massive" overnight Russian attack on central and southeastern Ukraine killed at least one person, with homes and businesses damaged in multiple cities.
"At night, the enemy carried out massive strikes" on Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine's state emergency service said on Telegram.
The Ukrainian air force said in a statement it had downed 510 of 537 drones and 38 of 45 missiles launched by Russia. It recorded five missile and 24 drone hits at seven locations with debris falling on 21 sites.
At least one person was killed and 26 others wounded, including two children, according to regional military administration chief Ivan Fedorov."Russian strikes destroyed private houses, damaged many facilities, including cafes, service stations, and industrial enterprises," Fedorov said.
A Ukrainian lawmaker who formerly served as speaker of parliament was also shot dead on Saturday in the western city of Lviv in what President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned as a"horrific murder", vowing a thorough investigation.
The victim was Andriy Parubiy, a well-known politician and a key figure in the 2014 Maidan revolution who served as parliamentary speaker in the 2010s.
The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine said in a statement that a shooter was being sought for the"intentional homicide" of the 54-year-old politician.
Ukraine's central Dnipropetrovsk region also came under attack early Saturday, the governor said, reporting strikes in Dnipro and Pavlograd.
"The region is under a massive attack. Explosions are being heard," Sergiy Lysak wrote on Telegram, warning residents to take cover.
Zelensky has said that Moscow is using preparation time for a meeting of leaders of both countries to launch new attacks on his country. No date has yet been set for the bilateral meeting.
"The only way to reopen a window of opportunity for diplomacy is through tough measures against all those bankrolling the Russian army and effective sanctions against Moscow itself – banking and energy sanctions," Zelensky wrote on X.
Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Dnipropetrovsk had been largely spared from intense fighting.
But Kyiv acknowledged on Tuesday that Russian troops had entered the region, after Moscow claimed its troops had gained a foothold there.
Dnipropetrovsk is not one of the five Ukrainian regions – Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Crimea – that Moscow has publicly claimed as Russian territory.
