Deadly drone attack on holiday camp in Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia kills at least 12, including children

An overnight drone attack on a holiday camp in Russian-occupied Kyrylivka, Zaporizhzhia, killed 12 people, including five children, and wounded 19 others on July 25, 2026. Russian officials accused Ukraine of deliberately targeting civilians, which Kyiv did not immediately comment on. Meanwhile, a Russian drone strike in Sumy killed three courier drivers. Concurrently, Ukraine escalated its long-range campaign, striking a Siberian oil refinery and cargo ships in the Caspian Sea, while NATO member Romania shot down a drone breaching its airspace.

Zaporizhzhia holiday camp attack

• ▪An overnight drone attack on a holiday camp in the resort area of Kyrylivka in Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia killed 12 people, including five children, on July 25, 2026.
• ▪The drone attack on the Kyrylivka holiday camp in Zaporizhzhia wounded 19 people and prompted Russia's Investigative Committee to open a terrorism case.

Sumy region drone strike

• ▪A Russian drone strike on a civilian facility in Ukraine's northeastern Sumy region on July 25, 2026, killed three drivers employed by the private Ukrainian courier service Nova Poshta.
• ▪The Russian Defence Ministry stated that its strike in the Sumy region targeted a storage and launch site for Ukrainian drones.

Ukrainian strikes on Russian infrastructure

• ▪Ukrainian drones struck the Filanovsky oil platform belonging to Lukoil in the Caspian Sea and caused a fire at an oil refinery in Tyumen, western Siberia, on July 25, 2026.
• ▪Ukrainian drones targeted the Port Olya 2 and Begey cargo vessels in the Caspian Sea, which are believed to be involved in military cargo shipments between Russia and Iran.

Romanian drone interceptions

• ▪The airspace breach on July 25, 2026, followed the downing of a suspected Russian drone by Romanian forces near Padina on July 24, 2026.
• ▪A Romanian F-16 pilot shot down a drone breaching Romanian national airspace over an unpopulated area in the Danube Delta on July 25, 2026.

Civilian targeting denials

• ▪Both Russia and Ukraine officially deny targeting civilians in the war launched by Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022.
• ▪Russian-appointed governor Yevgeny Balitsky accused Ukrainian forces of deliberately targeting civilians and ignoring moral norms in the Kyrylivka holiday camp attack.