Russian forces attacked Ukraine with 128 strike drones overnight on 9–10 April, hitting residential buildings across multiple regions and wounding at least three civilians, Ukraine's Air Force reported. Air defenses downed or suppressed 113 of the drones; at least 14 struck six locations, with debris from intercepted drones falling on seven more.
Sloviansk: two homes destroyed, three women wounded
In Sloviansk, Donetsk Oblast, Geran-2 drones struck a residential neighborhood overnight, destroying two private homes and damaging roughly 20 more, the head of the city's military administration, Vadym Liakh, reported. Three women were wounded and received medical assistance. Sloviansk, a city of roughly 100,000 before the war and a key logistics hub in Donetsk Oblast's government-controlled territory, has come under repeated drone strikes in recent months.
Konotop: apartment block struck
In Konotop, Sumy Oblast, Shahed drones hit a five-story residential building, NV.ua reported. The Air Force had tracked incoming drones toward Konotop from the northeast beginning at approximately 01:37. Konotop sits roughly 60 kilometers from the Russian border; the city and surrounding district have been targeted dozens of times since 2022.
Odesa: infrastructure and homes hit
A drone group from the Black Sea struck Odesa, damaging an infrastructure facility and hitting residential buildings, according to NV.ua. The Air Force had tracked the group approaching from the sea beginning at around 02:19, with additional drones subsequently directed toward the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi and Ovidiopol areas in Odesa Oblast. A second wave of drones entered Odesa Oblast from the Black Sea after 06:00, heading toward Chornomorske and Pivdenne.
The attack is the latest in an unbroken pattern of large-scale drone barrages that Russia has sustained through the current period of US-mediated ceasefire diplomacy. Russia has launched mass drone attacks on Ukrainian cities on each of the past several nights, continuing strikes regardless of the state of negotiations—a dynamic Ukrainian analysts have described as "ceasefire".
