Russia Kills 27 in Mass Drone-Missile Attack; Naftogaz Gas Facilities Struck in Poltava and Kharkiv

Russian forces launched a massive combined assault on May 5 using 11 Iskander-M ballistic missiles and 164 strike drones across Ukraine. The attack killed at least 27 people and wounded over 80. Regional breakdown: Zaporizhzhia suffered the heaviest toll — 12 civilians killed when Russian glide bombs struck a car repair shop and residential buildings; 6 killed and 12 wounded in the eastern city of Kramatorsk; 4 killed in Dnipro; and 5 killed at Naftogaz gas production facilities in the Poltava and Kharkiv regions (3 workers and 2 rescue personnel), with a deliberate second missile striking as emergency workers were responding — Zelensky called this 'especially vile.' The attacks cut gas supplies to nearly 3,500 customers. Ukraine's air defenses intercepted 149 of the 164 drones and 1 of 11 ballistic missiles. Zelensky condemned the timing — days before Russia's announced Victory Day ceasefire — as 'absolutely cynical, senseless terrorist strikes.'