A Russian drone strike on a settlement in Menska hromada overnight killed a teenage girl and wounded both her parents, the Menska City Council reported on 12 March. The State Emergency Service confirmed the fire was caused by a falling Russian UAV — a residential home and outbuilding burned.
Two residential buildings were also damaged in the strike. Police and rescue units from Menska and Koriukivska hromadas responded to the scene. Fire suppression and assistance to the wounded were ongoing as of the morning report.
The overnight attack was part of a broader Russian UAV campaign across Ukraine. The Air Force Command reported that Russia launched 94 drones on the night of 11-12 March, fired from Kursk, Oryol, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, and Millerovo in Russia, and from Hvardiyske in occupied Crimea. Around 60 of those were Shahed-type drones.
Ukraine's air defenses — including aviation, anti-aircraft missile units, electronic warfare units, drone systems, and mobile fire groups — had neutralized 77 Russian UAVs of the Shahed, Herbera, and other types by 09:00, according to the Air Force Command. Sixteen strike drones hit 11 locations; debris from downed drones fell on one additional location.
Chernihiv region saw multiple strikes over the preceding 24 hours. According to the regional military administration, on the night of 10-11 March, Russian "Geran" drones struck industrial facilities in Koriukivskyi and Novhorod-Siverskyi districts. In a village in Semenivska hromada, a drone hit an agricultural enterprise, burning a grain storage facility to the ground and damaging equipment.
On March 12, Semenivka itself came under drone attack. A strike near an apartment block damaged the facade and windows. A grocery store and a sawmill were also hit. Four local residents were reported injured, the regional administration said.
Elsewhere, a man and a woman were hospitalized in moderate condition after a Russian strike on Mykolaivska hromada in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, the regional administration reported. A private home and outbuilding caught fire. In Zaporizhzhia Oblast, the number of wounded from the 11 March Russian strike rose to 15, the regional administration announced.
The total number of attacks recorded across Chernihiv Oblast in the preceding 24-hour period reached 40, according to the regional administration.
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