Ukraine's Air Force said it repelled another wave of drone attacks targeting 12 of its regions early on July 6 after a regional official said Moscow had launched guided bombs on the Donetsk region, killing at least five people and wounding several others.
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"On the night of July 6, the enemy struck with 27 Shahed[-type] drones," the Air Force said in a message on its Telegram channel.
Ukrainian air-defense systems "managed to shoot down 24 drones in the Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Zaporizhzhya, Kherson, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Sumy, Chernihiv, Vinnytsya, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, and Mykolayiv regions," the Air Force said.
Separately, officials in the Sumy region, north of the capital, Kyiv, said Russian drones cut power to the local water system, causing the temporary interruption of the water supply.
Meanwhile, several blasts were reported in the city of Suspilne, northeast of Kyiv.
On July 5, Russian troops launched two guided aerial bombs at the city of Selydove in the eastern Donetsk region, killing at least five people and wounding another eight, the head of the region's military administration, Vadym Filashkin, said on Telegram.
Meanwhile, in Russia's Krasnodar region, two oil depots caught fire and a cell-phone tower was damaged due to a drone attack overnight on July 6, the region's operational headquarters said, blaming the attack on Ukraine.
Officials said that Ukrainian drones were shot down over two districts of Krasnodar. Debris caused minor damage to a cell tower in Yeysk, and a fuel tank caught fire at an oil depot in the village of Pavlovskaya.
The claim could not be independently verified.
Over the past several months, Ukraine, whose energy infrastructure has been battered by incessant Russian attacks over the past year, has increasingly targeted fuel-production sites inside Russia, mainly oil-refining facilities that work for Moscow's military.