Written by Lisa Murimi
A massive overnight Russian aerial assault on Ukraine killed one person, injured at least 18 others, and struck a U.S. electronics manufacturer in the country’s west, officials said on Thursday.
Emergency services reported that a missile strike on the town of Mukachevo, in the Zakarpattia region, injured 15 people and destroyed storage facilities belonging to the U.S. company. Regional governor Myroslav Biletskyi, speaking near the heavily damaged plant, confirmed it was producing consumer electronics.
“This is a fully civilian facility that has nothing to do with defense or the military,” Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha wrote on X, condemning the attack. He noted that it was not the first strike on American businesses in Ukraine, citing earlier Russian attacks on Boeing offices in Kyiv.
In the western city of Lviv, another strike killed one person, injured three others, and damaged 26 homes, according to Governor Maksym Kozytskyi.
Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia launched 574 drones and 40 missiles overnight in what was described as the largest aerial attack so far this month.
“This is why efforts to force Russia to end the war are so critical,” Sybiha stressed.
The barrage comes amid heightened diplomatic activity, as U.S. President Donald Trump intensifies efforts to broker an end to the war.
Russia, which denies deliberately targeting civilians, has repeatedly struck cities and infrastructure far from the front lines since invading Ukraine in 2022. Thousands of civilians, most of them Ukrainians, have been killed in the conflict.
