Russian forces carried out 932 strikes on 51 settlements in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region over the past day, wounding 13 people including one child, the head of the regional military administration, Ivan Fedorov, said.

According to Fedorov, 23 airstrikes hit several villages and towns in the region. Another 659 drones of various types, mostly FPV drones, attacked Zaporizhzhia city, Balabino, Malokaterynivka and other settlements. Infrastructure facilities, residential buildings, cars and farm buildings were damaged.

In Zaporizhzhia city itself on the evening of July 12, a Russian drone attack injured six people, including a child. Apartments on the second through fourth floors of an apartment building caught fire, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said.

Zaporizhzhia is located 24 km from the front line, with about 750,000 people remaining in the city. In recent weeks, Russian attacks have sharply intensified, acting mayor Regina Kharchenko told the BBC. According to her, drones and aerial bombs are hitting buses, gas stations, schools, hospitals and residential buildings.

As RUSI analyst Sam Cranny-Evans explained to the BBC, Russian forces have begun using longer-range carrier drones that deliver several smaller drones, as well as mesh-network technology that allows signals to be transmitted from one drone to another. This has increased the strike radius. Local authorities reported that 884 Russian drones were intercepted in the last week of June.

In the Odesa region, Russian forces struck ports on the night of July 13, Russia's Defense Ministry said. The ministry said the targets were port infrastructure facilities in Chornomorsk used to store military cargo. In Odesa, three people were wounded after strikes hit the territory of a motor transport enterprise and buses caught fire, the head of the city's military administration, Serhiy Lysak, said. Four private homes were also damaged.

In the Kherson region, a 98-year-old woman was killed by artillery shelling of the village of Novovorontsovka, the regional prosecutor's office said.