Ukrainian air defenses reported shooting down or suppressing 85 of the drones and three of the missiles, which included ballistic Iskander-M and KN-23 weapons, according to the Ukrainian Air Force. The overnight attack on Aug. 16 targeted multiple regions, with strikes reported in Kryvyi Rih, Kyiv, Kherson, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kremenchuk and Sloviansk.
In Kryvyi Rih, one person was killed and 14 wounded, according to Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration. Nearly all of the injured were at the ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih steel plant, where drones damaged energy and blast-furnace facilities, the company said, stressing that the enterprise is a civilian site. The head of Kryvyi Rih's defense council said 12 residential apartment buildings were also hit.
In Kyiv, at least three people were wounded. One strike hit the territory of the Petrivka book market in the Obolon district, and a non-residential building was damaged in the Holosiivskyi district. In the surrounding Kyiv region, three people including a child were injured, local authorities said.
In the Kherson region, one person was killed and nine wounded, according to regional head Oleksandr Prokudin. More than 30 settlements came under fire, with private homes and apartment buildings damaged. In Sumy, a 59-year-old man was killed and his wife hospitalized. In the Kharkiv region, at least four people were wounded, regional head Oleh Syniehubov said.
Russian forces also struck Kremenchuk in the Poltava region with ballistic missiles, hitting an open area where dry grass caught fire; no casualties were reported, according to regional head Vitalii Diakivnych. In Sloviansk, a private residential sector was attacked, with 22 buildings partially or fully destroyed; the State Emergency Service said firefighters paused operations due to the threat of a repeat strike.
Russia's Defense Ministry confirmed strikes on several regions, including the steel plant in Kryvyi Rih. The ministry claimed it hit military-industrial enterprises in Kyiv and an oil refinery in Kremenchuk. There was no independent confirmation of those assertions.