KYIV, Ukraine — Russian air defenses shot down more than 100 Ukrainian drones Sunday over Russia’s western regions, Moscow officials said, while 17 people were injured in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, in a ballistic missile attack.

Such large-scale aerial attacks are still rare over Russia since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

The Russian Defense Ministry said 110 drones were destroyed in the overnight barrage against seven Russian regions. Many targeted the border region of Kursk, where 43 drones were reportedly shot down.

Social media footage appeared to show air defenses at work over the Russian city of Dzerzhinsk in the Nizhny Novgorod region, close to a factory producing explosives. Local Gov. Gleb Nikitin wrote on social media Sunday that four firefighters were injured repelling a drone attack over the city’s industrial zone.

Meanwhile, the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces posted on Telegram that it targeted Dzerzhinsk’s state-owned Sverdlov factory, which it said had been making chemical components for artillery ammunition and aerial bombs. In Ukraine’s Kryvyi Rih, 17 people were injured after two Russian ballistic missiles hit the city late Saturday evening, officials said Sunday.

Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched 49 drones and two Iskander-M ballistic missiles overnight. It said 31 of the drones were shot down over 12 regions, including the capital, Kyiv, while 13 others disappeared from radar — suggesting that they were knocked out by electronic defenses.

In a statement on social media, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia had launched about 800 guided aerial bombs and more than 500 attack drones over Ukraine in the past week.

“Every day, Russia strikes our cities and communities. It is deliberate terror from the enemy against our people,” he said, renewing calls for continued air support from the country’s allies.

“United in defense, the world can stand against this targeted terror.”

In Germany, American journalist and historian Anne Applebaum urged continued support for Ukraine as she accepted a prestigious German prize Sunday, arguing that pacifism in the face of aggression is often nothing more than appeasement.

Applebaum made her appeal to an audience in Frankfurt, where she received the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She was joined by her husband, Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski, who like his wife is a strong voice on the international stage for supporting Ukraine as it defends itself against Russia’s invasion.

“If there is even a small chance that military defeat could help end this horrific cult of violence in Russia, just as military defeat once brought an end to the cult of violence in Germany, we should take it,” she said.