Russian drones struck the industrial city of Pavlohrad in southeastern Ukraine, killing five people, as well as hitting a petrol station in Kyiv and an international agribusiness facility in Dnipro as Russia continues attacks on logistics and economic targets.

Governor Oleksandr Hanzha said Russia deployed drones, artillery and aerial bombs in hitting five districts of in the Dnipropetrovsk region, killing two more people. A total of 76 people were injured, including several children, he said.

Photos posted online showed shattered shops and burned-out vehicles in the city, which has acted as a critical supply route for the Ukrainian military connecting central Ukraine to eastern front lines.

The attack on the petrol station in Kyiv and on an agribusiness facility run by Bunge in the southeastern city of Dnipro added to Russia’s intensified air campaign in recent weeks.

Russia has launched ballistic missiles and jet-powered drones at warehouses, food suppliers and retail chains. Kyiv has struggled to repel the attacks amid a shortage of air defence systems.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Sergii Koretskyi said Russian attacks on businesses and civilian infrastructure were “rapidly growing” and urged the government to “react and act in advance”.

The strike on the Ukrnafta petrol station appeared to be the first jet-powered drone attack on such a facility in Kyiv.

It followed around 300 attacks on petrol stations in or near Ukraine’s frontline regions in recent months.

Four people were injured, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.

“There is no military objective in such strikes. This is terror and intimidation of the civilian population,” Ukrnafta CEO Bohdan Kukura said.

In Russia, authorities said Ukraine killed at least two people were killed in a drone attack on the Tula region.

Ukraine claims the attacks are part of a campaign to “bring the war home” to ordinary Russians and raise the cost of continuing the conflict.

Both Russia and Ukraine deny targeting civilians.

Tula region’s governor Dmitry Milyayev said on Telegram that two people were killed and another three were injured in drone attacks overnight.

Ukrainian drones also damaged civilian infrastructure in the central Volga River city of Saratov, regional governor Roman Busargin said on Telegram, adding that there were no casualties.

Russian e-commerce company Ozon said that a Ukraine drone attack caused a fire at its logistics hub in Saratov, adding to more than two dozen warehouses, owned by Ozon and its top peer Wildberries, that have been recently hit.

The Saratov region, a frequent target of Ukrainian air strikes, including an attack earlier this week, is home to a large oil refinery run by state oil company Rosneft, as well as a number of other industrial and military facilities.

In the city of Volgograd, south of Saratov, and also located on the Volga River, a missile attack injured two after hitting two residential buildings, with its debris also damaging an industrial facility, local authorities said on Telegram.

‘No coincidence’

In Dnipro, two people were killed in the attack on the Bunge sunflower oil facility, one of Ukraine’s five largest food plants.

It was the second attack on a US-owned business in several weeks, said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha.

“This is no coincidence, but part of Moscow’s systematic terror campaign against American businesses and economic interests,” he wrote on X.

Five people were wounded, a local official said.

In Kyiv region, outside the capital, regional governor Tymur Tkachenko said one person had been killed in a series of attacks.

President Volodymyr Zelensky, on a visit to Canada, said Russian forces also struck localities in eastern Donetsk region and in Kharkiv region in the northeast.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said Russian drones hit office buildings and storage areas in the capital.

In the northeastern city of Sumy, city officials said a jet-powered drone tore into a shopping centre – a day after two people were killed and 20 wounded in a similar attack there.

Ukraine and Russia have traded escalating strikes in recent weeks on logistics and other economic targets aimed at damaging each other’s war effort.

Ukraine has attacked Russia’s largest online retailers and oil refineries, often deep inside the country, as well as energy and fuel logistics in regions of its own territory occupied by Russian forces.

Russia, meanwhile, has stepped up strikes on Ukraine’s ports, killing four and injuring 19 in the southern city of Mykolaiv overnight, regional officials said.