Three people were killed overnight in a large-scale Ukrainian drone attack on the Moscow region, Russian officials have said.
A woman died in a house in Khimki, north of the capital, where a person was trapped under rubble, regional governor Andrei Vorobiev said. A man and a woman were killed in the village of Pogorelki.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 12 people were injured in strikes on a city oil refinery. Russia’s military said 556 drones were intercepted.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the strikes were an “entirely justified” response to deadly Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities.
Earlier this week, a massive Russian drone and missile attack killed 24 people in Kyiv.
In Ukraine, eight people were injured in overnight Russian drone attacks and shelling in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, officials said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and Moscow currently controls about 20% of Ukrainian territory.
In a post on Telegram early on Sunday, Vorobiev wrote that “since three o’clock in the morning, air defence forces have been repelling a large-scale UAV [drone] attack on the capital region”.
He said four people – three men and a woman – were injured in the region, and a number of houses damaged.
A private house was on fire in the village of Subbotino, south-west of Moscow, the governor added.
Moscow Mayor Sobyanin said 12 people were injured when drones hit an entrance to the city’s oil refinery. Three nearby houses were damaged.
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