Russian bombing kills two, Ukrainian attack injures four civilians
Two people were killed and one wounded in a Russian bombardment of the Ukrainian village of Podoli near the city of Kubiansk (northeast), the region’s governor announced on Saturday.
Earlier this month, authorities in Kubyansk, 7 km from the border, called for the evacuation of people living near the town as Russia stepped up its offensive to retake the area.
The Russian military has vowed in recent days that it is advancing toward territory it recaptured from Ukraine last year.
there Russia It said on Saturday it shot down two Ukrainian drones that approached Moscow and over the borderUkraineFour civilians were injured in a Ukrainian attack there.
The capital’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said early Saturday that Russian air defense forces had shot down a drone approaching Moscow.
“Last night, air defense forces destroyed a drone approaching Moscow in Istrinsky district,” Sobyanin wrote in a telegram.
According to preliminary information, there was no loss of life or damage.
Another Ukrainian drone was shot down by Russian air defense forces on Saturday morning Sepekinoin the area Belgorod, border with Ukraine, according to a press release from the Russian Defense Ministry.
Russia accused Ukrainian forces of shelling a village in the Belgorod region with grenades on Saturday, a strike that injured four civilians, local officials said.
“Fragment grenades targeted private houses” and a shop in the village of Urasovo in Volusk district, Belgorod region governor Vyacheslav Klatkov wrote in a telegram.
“According to initial reports, four people, including three men and a woman, were injured,” he said, adding that all of them have been hospitalized.
As these notifications come Ukrainian drone strikes And bombing of Russian regions bordering Ukraine has increased in recent months.
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