Ukraine: 96 Russian drones overnight, 61 of them jet-powered – injured reach 50 after the strike on a Zaporizhzhia apartment block

Russia attacked Ukraine overnight from Friday, November 13 into Saturday, November 14 with 96 Shahed-type attack drones, Gerbera drones and “Parodiya” decoys. In Zaporizhzhia, the number of injured from Friday’s Russian strike on an apartment block rose to 50. The Ukrainian Air Force counted the attacks from 18:00 on Friday. Of the 96 drones, 61 were jet-powered Shaheds, launched from the directions of Bryansk, Oryol and Primorsko-Akhtarsk in Russia, from occupied Donetsk and from Gvardeyskoye in occupied Crimea. The overnight summary records no missiles.

By 07:30 air defence had shot down or electronically neutralised 81 drones, 52 of them jet-powered. The attack was repelled by aircraft, anti-aircraft missile units, electronic-warfare and unmanned-systems units and mobile fire groups. The Air Force recorded strikes at eight locations and debris falling at two more, while some drones were still in the air when the report was issued. The previous night was marked by the strike on a hospital in Kyiv (our report).

The strike in the Kosmichnyi district

In Zaporizhzhia, Friday’s Russian strike hit a five-storey apartment block in the Kosmichnyi district. The Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration reported damage to apartments on three floors, fire on the second and third floors and cars set ablaze in the yard. The number of injured rose gradually to nine, then to 25, among them six children, as searches in the rubble were completed. In the afternoon the administration said the injured had reached 30. On Saturday the deputy head of the administration, Mykhailo Semikin, announced they had reached 50.

The same district was attacked again in the evening. An FPV drone wounded a woman, and shortly afterwards another FPV drone hit an apartment block and started a fire. In the daily summary of the region’s Defence Council, Ivan Fedorov reported three dead, one of them a child, and 62 injured, eight of them children, in the city and the surrounding area within 24 hours. Russian forces hit 48 settlements in the region with 884 strikes: 40 air strikes, 661 by drones, mostly FPV, 20 by multiple rocket launchers and 163 by artillery. Authorities received 554 reports of damage to infrastructure, homes and cars.

From the Russian side, Russia’s Investigative Committee claims that a Ukrainian drone killed a woman in the settlement of Yubileyny in the occupied Luhansk region on Friday. The same statement reports one woman dead from a strike on a house in the village of Krapivna in the Bryansk region, two injured in occupied Enerhodar in the Zaporizhzhia region, and two injured by an FPV drone that hit a car in the village of Pochayevo in the Belgorod region. The Committee says it will investigate the incidents as crimes of the Ukrainian armed forces.