A woman has been killed and three other people injured in a Ukrainian drone attack overnight into Sunday on the Russian city of Voronezh, which also damaged several buildings, local officials said.

The regional governor, Alexander Gusev, described the strike as one of the heaviest attacks on the city since the war began.

Authorities said the overnight attack hit residential areas and infrastructure, damaging more than 10 apartment blocks, several private houses, a secondary school and a number of administrative buildings.

Emergency services were deployed to the affected areas.

Officials said they were still assessing the full extent of the damage.

Voronezh, about 470 kilometres south of Moscow and roughly 250 kilometres from the Ukrainian border, is among a growing number of Russian cities that have been targeted by Ukrainian military operations.

Ukraine has said such strikes are aimed at disrupting Russian military activity and are carried out in response to Moscow’s missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian cities.

In a related development, Russia said it launched a hypersonic missile on Friday at a site in Ukraine near the border with Poland, a member of NATO.

The missile launch was widely seen as a signal to Western allies backing Kyiv, as the conflict continues to affect both military and civilian targets beyond Ukraine’s borders.

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