Major strikes by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were targeted overnight Saturday into Sunday in and around the city, killing at least 3 people and injuring 4, local authorities said today, less than a week after the end of a days-long ceasefire with .
Russian air defenses shot down at least 74 unmanned aerial vehicles overnight and more than 120 in the past 24 hours, according to the mayor of the Russian capital, Sergei Sobyanin.
Also in the Moscow region, to which the Russian capital does not belong administratively, “from 03:00 (local time and Greek time), the anti-aircraft defense forces repel a drone attack“, the regional governor Andrey Vorobyov said in a post on the Telegram application.
According to him, a woman was killed in the locality of Khimki, in the northwestern part of the Moscow Region, and two men were killed in a village in the Mytishchi commune, in the northeast, while in the rest of the region, houses were damaged and “infrastructure” was attacked, injuring 4 people. As Sergei Sobyanin reported, in the capital a blow caused the injury of 12 people, “mostly workers” at a construction site located near a refinery.
«Refinery production was not disrupted. Three residential buildings were damaged“, clarified the mayor of the Russian capital.
Ukraine and Russia resumed lashing out at each other overnight after a three-day US-sponsored truce expired over Russia’s commemorations of the end of World War II.
Source: APE – MEB
