Ukrainian drones attack, including on Moscow, at least one dead
Russia claims this Thursday morning to have intercepted 126 drones above its territory, reporting one dead and four wounded among civilians in the strikes.
The Russian anti-aircraft forces intercepted and destroyed 122 drones in the night and four others in the morning, most of them in the southwest regions, borders of Ukraine, but also three in the Moscow region, the ministry said, in a statement published on Telegram. A woman was killed and a man, a civilian, injured in the night from Wednesday to Thursday by a Ukrainian drone shot in the Belgorod region, a border of Ukraine, the governor of the region said on Telegram, Viatcheslav Gladkov.
Three adolescents were also injured in the night in the Voronej region (southwest), a border of Ukraine, by fragments of drone shot down above a building, said the governor of the region, Alexandre Goussev, on Telegram.
A “horrible” attack for Zelensky
President Volodymyr Zelensky tried the Russian attack on Wednesday on Dobropillia “horrible”. “Their strikes have no military sense, they only aim to make as many victims as possible,” he estimated during his daily address to the nation.
At least two dead in a Russian strike in a commercial area
On Wednesday, a Russian strike against a commercial area in eastern Ukraine – in Dobropillia, where the fighting is particularly violent – left at least two dead and 22 injured, local authorities said. “The Russians have once again deliberately targeted a highly frequented area, a shopping center located in the city center. This time, they used an aerial bomb of 500 kg, “wrote on Telegram Vadym Filachkin on Wednesday evening, governor of the Donetsk region.
“It is likely that people are still stuck under the rubble, and research to find survivors will continue,” he added.
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