July 26 (UPI) -- Russia and Ukraine on Saturday exchanged drone attacks, with five people dead in the overnight strikes, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed optimism about his nation's military progress.

Zelensky said Ukraine was winning the war against Russia, which invaded his country in February 2022. Since then, Ukraine has regained some territory.

"Russian military enterprises, Russian logistics and Russian airfields must see that Russia's own war is now hitting them back with real consequences," Zelensky posted Saturday on X. "The precision of our drones, the daily nature of Ukraine's responses -- are some of the arguments that we will surely bring peace closer."

In Ukraine on Saturday, Russia used more than 200 drones and almost 300 missiles, mainly in Dnipropetrovsk. Three people died there.

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