Moscow and Kyiv exchange deadly attacks

Hundreds of drones targeted Moscow and other areas, killing six people, while Russia launched missile strikes that killed and injured more than 20 people in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, according to officials in both countries.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the Russian capital was subjected to a continuous drone attack, with air defenses intercepting more than 600 of them. The region’s governor, Andrei Vorobyov, described the attack as “one of the largest drone attacks in modern memory.”

On the other side, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy again called on his country’s allies via the Telegram platform to supply it with air defense missiles. He stated, “If North Korean missiles are destroying infrastructure and claiming lives here in Europe, we cannot allow European anti-aircraft missiles to simply remain in warehouses.”

Russian local authorities announced that six people were killed and four others injured, including a 14-year-old boy, in a Ukrainian missile strike on Russia’s Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine.

For its part, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it targeted a ship berthing station at the Ukrainian port of Izmail, which it said was unloading ships carrying military cargo. It also claimed to have struck a logistics center for Novaya Poshta in the outskirts of Odesa, a drone warehouse in the Dnipropetrovsk region, and an air defense zone in Donetsk.