Russian drone strikes on Ukraine overnight wounded eight people, Ukrainian authorities said.<\/p>\n
In Ukraine’s strikes on Russia, a woman was killed after a drone hit her home in Khimki, a Russian city just northwest of Moscow, and two men died in the village of Pogorelki, which is 10km north of the capital, according to local Governor Andrei Vorobyev.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian drones had also damaged unspecified “infrastructure” and several high-rise buildings, Vorobyev said on social media.<\/p>\n
One man was also killed after a drone struck a truck in the Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, according to local authorities.<\/p>\n
In Moscow itself, at least 12 people were wounded in the nighttime strike, mostly near the entrance to the city’s oil refinery, mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported. Sobyanin reported that the “technology” of the refinery hadn’t been damaged.<\/p>\n
A dozen others were wounded in one of Ukraine’s largest strikes on Russia. (Source: Reuters)<\/p>\n
Hours later, the Indian Embassy in Moscow reported that an Indian worker died in a drone strike “in (the) Moscow region,” while three other Indian nationals were hospitalised with injuries. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the worker was one of the three people reported dead by Moscow region officials, or a further fatality.<\/p>\n
Russia’s largest airport \u2014 Moscow’s Sheremetyevo \u2014 said that drone debris had fallen on its grounds without causing damage or affecting flights.<\/p>\n
Russian defences shot down 81 drones headed for Moscow overnight, state agency Tass reported, citing Sobyanin, marking one of the largest attacks on the city since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.<\/p>\n
Russian air defences overnight destroyed 556 drones over Russia, the occupied Crimean Peninsula and the Azov and Black Seas, the Russian Defense Ministry said Sunday morning. Shortly after midday local time, it reported that more than 1000 drones had been shot down or jammed in the previous 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Zelensky said that the drones had flown more than 500km from Ukrainian territory, and that Ukraine was “overcoming” Russian air defence systems concentrated in and around the capital.<\/p>\n
“Our responses to Russia’s prolongation of the war and attacks on our cities and communities are entirely justified. This time, Ukrainian long-distance sanctions have reached the Moscow region, and we are clearly telling the Russians: their state must end its war,” Zelensky said.<\/p>\n
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This photo released by Moscow Region Governor Andrei Vorobyev’s official telegram channel shows the damage after a Ukrainian drone attack, just outside Moscow, Russia. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n
Revenge for Russian attacks, expert says<\/p>\n
Nigel Gould Davies, senior fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a London-based think tank, said that Ukraine’s large-scale attack appeared to be “the retaliation or revenge that President Zelensky promised after the fierce attacks that Russia carried out on Kyiv”.<\/p>\n