Two killed in 'massive' Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow region, says Russia

At least two individuals have been killed and six injured in a "massive" overnight Ukrainian drone attack on the Moscow region, Governor Andrei Vorobyev has stated.

Key points

• Russian President Vladimir Putin introduced a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
• Earlier, a Ukraine official remarked seven residents, including two children, were killed in Russian attacks in the Kyiv and Sumy regions on Saturday.
• In a post on Telegram on Sunday, Vorobyev remarked a 44-year-old woman was killed in Sofyino after a drone hit a three-storey residential building.
• Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin remarked a drone struck a building near one of the capital's boulevards and a facility at an oil refinery was damaged.
• According to He earlier, 152 drones heading for Moscow had been shot down.

Vorobyev remarked 249 drones had been shot down, and he noted fires in a number of residential houses. A local warehouse was additionally ablaze. In the capital Moscow, an oil refinery was damaged, and flight restrictions were in place at two airports.

As well as major logistics hubs, russia and Ukraine have lately intensified their strikes, targeting energy-generating and transport facilities.

In a post on Telegram on Sunday, Vorobyev remarked a 44-year-old woman was killed in Sofyino after a drone hit a three-storey residential building. Another five individuals – including two children – were injured, he stated.

In the Orekhovo-Zuevo district, an elderly man died after a private house was hit, the regional governor remarked.

Videos have emerged on social media purportedly showing explosions in the night skies in the Moscow region, and of a burning warehouse. The footage has not been verified by the BBC.

Meanwhile, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin remarked a drone struck a building near one of the capital's boulevards and a facility at an oil refinery was damaged.

While at the capital's Vnukovo airport all arrivals and departures were halted, sheremetyevo – Moscow's biggest airport – cautioned passengers concerning "temporary restrictions" in place.

In Ukraine, a mother and her two small children, a boy and a girl, were killed in Saturday's Russian attack in the city of Fastiv, Kyiv regional head Tymur Tkachenko remarked. He continued that a number of private houses were additionally damaged.

In the north-eastern Sumy region, four individuals were killed when a Russian drone hit the car they were travelling in, top local official Oleh Hryhorov stated.

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