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Luke Harding in Pavlohrad

Russia launches ‘hellish’ aerial attack on eastern Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad

Orange lights in the night sky as Ukrainian anti-aircraft systems fire at Russian missiles and drones heading for Pavlohrad. July 2025 Ukraine
Ukrainian anti-aircraft systems fire at Russian missiles and drones heading for Pavlohrad during a six-hour bombardment early on Saturday. Photograph: Alessio Mamo/The Guardian

Russia launched its biggest ever attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad early on Saturday, as part of a large wave of strikes across the country involving hundreds of kamikaze drones and ballistic missiles.

The six-hour bombardment was the worst in the city’s history. The head of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Sergey Lysak, said a factory had been damaged, a fire station destroyed and a five-storey residential building hit.

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