Fire-fighters tackle a blaze caused by a Russian airstrike in southern Ukraine’s Odesa region, 13 December 2025. Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine
Two people were killed in an overnight Ukrainian drone strike on the city of Saratov, in Russia’s Volga region, according to Saratov region Governor Roman Busargin.
Writing on his official Telegram channel on Saturday morning, Busargin said that several apartments had been damaged when a drone struck a residential building in the early hours of Saturday. A fire that broke out in the building after the attack was subsequently extinguished.
According to unconfirmed media reports, a Saratov oil refinery was also targeted in the stroke. Though the Russian Defence Ministry did not confirm or deny that, it did say that Russian forces had intercepted 41 Ukrainian drones over Russia and Russian-annexed Crimea on Friday, 28 of which it intercepted over the Saratov region.
In Ukraine, meanwhile, at least six people were injured in overnight Russian airstrikes, including four people in the country’s southern Odesa region, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.
Civilian facilities, as well as energy and industrial infrastructure, suffered damage, leaving areas without power and water, the regional administration said, adding that the Odesa region had experienced “one of the enemy’s most severe airstrikes”.
Another two people were injured in eastern Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region overnight, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, while Russian forces also attacked critical and industrial infrastructure in the southern Mykolayiv region. Additional energy infrastructure was targeted in the Kirovohrad and Kherson regions of central and southeastern Ukraine as Moscow kept up its strikes on civilian and industrial infrastructure.
