Zaporizhzhia hammered by 819 strikes in a day as six wounded

Russian forces pounded Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region over the past day, leaving six people hurt — one of them a child — and damage scattered across dozens of communities. Ivan Fedorov, who heads the region's military administration, said the injured and the destruction came from a barrage that stretched from sunrise to sunrise.

The scale, according to Fedorov's Telegram post: 819 strikes hitting 52 settlements. He counted 25 air strikes, 601 drones of various modifications — mostly FPV — plus 5 multiple-launch rocket system attacks and 188 artillery strikes aimed at local communities.

The aftermath added up fast. Fedorov reported 60 separate reports of damage to infrastructure, housing and vehicles, a tally that keeps growing as crews work through the sites.

Zaporizhzhia has stayed on the front line of Moscow's drone and artillery campaign, and Tuesday's figures landed alongside a parallel wave in the other direction: Ukrainian drone raids over western Russia prompted flight halts at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo airport and briefly disrupted two Moscow airports, Domodedovo and Vnukovo.