Russia and Ukraine continued to trade strikes on Friday, attacking drones and key military facilities.
The Russian Defense Ministry said in its latest report that its forces have launched one massive attack and six cluster strikes on the Ukrainian side in the past week with long-range high-precision weapons and combat UAVs.
A total of 3,084 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones were shot down within the week, according to the report, with two settlements in the direction of Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia being controlled by Russia.
On the same day, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported 273 crossfires at the front lines in the past 24 hours.
Ukraine's air, missile and artillery forces attacked multiple Russian targets, including personnel assembly areas, command posts and artillery systems, along with 2,046 drones being shot down, the Ukrainian side said.
Alexey Likhachev, director general of Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom, reported Ukrainian drone strikes on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) on Friday afternoon. "Three of our engineers were injured, two of them are in serious condition," Likhachev was quoted as saying by Russian news agency Interfax.
Earlier on Friday, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced the start of a localized ceasefire it brokered on the front line near the Zaporizhzhia NPP, enabling repairs to the plant's crucial power line.
The strike was happened during Friday's de-mining phase of the agreed localized ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine.
The Zaporizhzhia plant, one of Europe's largest nuclear power facilities, has been under Russian control since March 2022.
Russia, Ukraine continue to trade strikes on drones, facilities
