A Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s southwestern Samara region on Saturday killed four people, local governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said on social media, adding that one person was injured.
In Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said three people were killed and dozens wounded when Russia launched 40 missiles and around 580 drones in a “massive attack” – one of the largest in past weeks – on the Dnipro region.
In the overnight attacks, “a missile with cluster munitions directly struck an apartment building” in the eastern city of Dnipro, Zelenskyy posted on social media.
Separately, a crew of journalists from Ukraine’s Channel Five and their driver were injured by a landmine near Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region, Ukrinform reported on Saturday.
Russian forces seized the village of Muravka in Ukraine’s Donetsk region and Novoivanovka in the Zaporizhia region, according to TASS.
Estonian officials say three Russian MiG-31 fighters entered Estonia’s airspace “over the Gulf of Finland” for a total of 12 minutes on Friday and called for NATO talks over the “unprecedented and brazen intrusion”.
Moscow denied violating Estonia’s airspace, with the Russian defence ministry claiming its jets flew over neutral waters of the Baltic Sea as they travelled from northwestern Russia to the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad.
The incident came a week after more than 20 Russian drones entered Polish airspace and drew immediate condemnation from NATO and European countries.
NATO spokesperson Allison Hart accused Moscow of “reckless behaviour” and said the alliance had scrambled aircraft to intercept the Russian jets.
British Defence Secretary John Healey said Russia’s “reckless and dangerous activity” was “the third violation of NATO airspace in recent days”.
France’s Ministry of the Armed Forces also responded, saying in a statement: “This incursion into Estonia is unprecedented for more than 20 years”.