Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops attacked border communities in Ukraine's Chernihiv region using attack drones, damaging homes, a gas station, outbuildings, vehicles, and energy infrastructure.
Around 8,000 consumers in the Novhorod-Siverskyi district of the Chernihiv region have been left without electricity after a strike hit an energy facility.
Russian troops attacked the village of Masheve in the Semenivka community on the border of the Chernihiv region with Gerbera drones this morning; four people were injured.
In the Chernihiv region, a gas station in the Koriukivka district caught fire after being struck by a Russian drone yesterday evening, July 27. A 21-year-old resident was injured.
The Defense Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) has identified the Russian unit responsible for the strike on an ATB supermarket in Chernihiv, saying the attack was carried out by a Geran-4 jet-powered drone operated by personnel from the GROM Kaskad brigade.
In Chernihiv, cleanup efforts following the attack carried out by the Russian military on the afternoon of July 26 have been completed; two people were killed and another 25 were injured.
Russia's attack on a supermarket in Chernihiv was carried out with a jet-powered drone equipped with a video camera, indicating that the strike on the civilian facility was intentional.
The Russian attacks that killed people in Chernihiv and Zaporizhzhia today are deliberate acts of Russian terror with no military justification, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
Three people were injured as a result of Russian drone strikes in the Chernihiv region; the roof of the city’s cultural center, residential buildings, and cars were hit.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has detained two suspected Russian agents in the Chernihiv region who were allegedly preparing to blow up a railway track in an attempt to derail a freight locomotive and disrupt transport logistics in northern Ukraine.