War in Ukraine: Russia launched 16 missiles and 11 drones overnight
Ukraine's air force said on March 30 that Russian forces fired four missiles into eastern Ukraine overnight, as well as 12 Shahed drones across the country, Reuters reports.
It said nine of the drones were shot down by Ukraine in the Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, Odesa and Poltava regions. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
Russia has launched an air-strike campaign focusing on Ukraine's energy sector over the past week, firing 190 rockets, 140 Shahed drones and 700 anti-aircraft missiles in what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described as a “dramatic increase in Russia’s air terror.”
Russian forces are also “actively trying” to advance on the front lines, with 72 combat clashes taking place in the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk provinces over the past day, the Ukrainian military said in its daily bulletin.
Ukrainian forces repelled at least 40 Russian assaults near the cities of Avdiyivka, Bakhmut and Lyman in the Donetsk region and Bilohorivka in the Luhansk region, according to the bulletin.
