ISTANBUL

Russia and Ukraine on Saturday accused each other of overnight drone attacks, claiming that at least 16 people were killed and 63 others injured over the last 24 hours.

Ukraine’s General Staff said Saturday on Telegram that Moscow launched 286 drones across the country, with 260 shot down.

In Ukraine's Sumy region, 13 people were injured during an overnight strike, Serhii Kryvosheienko, head of the City’s Military Administration, said on Telegram.

Dnipropetrovsk Governor Oleksandr Hanzha said on Telegram that Russia attacked two districts of the region more than 20 times with drones, artillery, and aerial bombs, injuring three people.

Later in the day, he announced that five people were killed and 22 others injured in Russia's Saturday morning attack on Nikopol.

Oleh Syniehubov, head of the military administration in the Kharkiv region, said four people were killed and 11 injured in shelling over the past 24 hours.

Donetsk Governor Vadym Filashkin said on Telegram that six people were killed and 10 others injured in the region over the last 24 hours.

Meanwhile, Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces intercepted 85 Ukrainian unmanned aircraft over the Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kursk, Oryol, Rostov, Samara, Saratov, and Tula regions, as well as over Crimea, which Moscow illegally annexed in 2014, and the Black Sea.

The governor of the Rostov region, Yuri Slusar, said on Telegram that one person was killed and four others were injured in Taganrog during a nighttime drone attack.

A commercial vessel was damaged in the waters of the Taganrog Bay of the Sea of ​​Azov, and a fire later broke out but was brought under control, he added.

“The dry cargo ship, flying the flag of a foreign state, was located a few kilometers from the coastline,” he said.