Overnight Russian attack on Ukraine kills at least three and hits rabbi’s car

Russian forces carried out drone strikes on Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region on Thursday night, killing a 52-year-old man, Governor Serhii Lysak reported.

He said that two more people were injured and received treatment at the scene.

Ukraine’s national railway company reported that Russian forces also struck a locomotive in the Dnipropetrovsk region. The train driver was killed, and his assistant was wounded but is in stable condition.

In the Zaporizhzhia region, Russian troops attacked the Stepnohirsk community using guided aerial bombs, hitting a residential area, Governor Ivan Fedorov said. A 64-year-old man was killed in the strike.

Russian forces also targeted the city of Chuhuiv in the Kharkiv region. According to Mayor Halyna Minaieva, four people were injured, and residential buildings and a school were damaged.

In Kherson, a drone struck the car of the city and region’s chief rabbi, Yosef Wolff, while it was driving, according to Ukraine’s United Jewish Community. The rabbi and members of his family were inside the vehicle but were unharmed in the attack.

According to Ukraine’s Air Force, Russian forces launched 35 attack drones and decoy drones across Ukraine overnight. Ukrainian air defenses shot down 11 Shahed-type attack drones.

Russia’s Defense Ministry, meanwhile, reported that its air defenses intercepted and destroyed 73 Ukrainian drones over various regions of Russia during the night, including three headed towards Moscow. Eleven drones were shot down over the Moscow region, said Governor Andrei Vorobyov, who posted photos showing minor damage to private homes. He said that no injuries had been reported.