Russian forces attacked the city of Zaporizhzhia with drones on 6 July, injuring four people.

Russian forces attacked the city of Zaporizhzhia with drones on 6 July, injuring four people.

Four people have been injured. They are receiving medical treatment.

A Russian drone guided entirely by an experimental artificial intelligence system killed three civilians in Zaporizhzhia on July 6, 2026.

The attack involved a group of approximately six Molniya drones that did not transmit radio signals and relied on Nvidia Jetson Orin minicomputers for autonomous targeting.

A Russian drone struck a gas station in Zaporizhzhia, killing two civilians and injuring nine others.

Ivan Fedorov, head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, reported that vehicles at the site were damaged.

The nine injured civilians included an eight-year-old boy.

The victims killed in the attack were an 18-year-old woman and a 41-year-old man.

Russian forces had been attacking gas stations in Zaporizhzhia since the morning.

Earlier reports indicated that three people had been injured before the final count rose to nine.

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The New York Times reported last month that a Russian drone guided entirely by an artificial intelligence system killed three civilians in Zaporizhzhia in southeastern Ukraine on July 6.

The report found that while the drone had been programmed by human operators to travel towards a particular petrol station, it had chosen its exact target, likely propane tanks, without human intervention.