NewzIn Russia, voters are on the third and final day of casting ballots in the country's first wartime parliamentary election. Despite the voting however, Ukraine carried out what Moscow described as the "largest ever" drone attack on the Russian capital. Kyiv reportedly fired over 1.000 drones at the country, leaving two dead in the Moscow region and inflicting damage upon an oil refinery.
Details by FRANCE 24 correspondent in Kyiv, Gulliver Cragg. Ukrainian forces fired more than 1,000 drones at Russia overnight, including hundreds that were launched toward Moscow, officials said Sunday as the Kremlin was wrapping up the third and last day of its parliamentary elections.Moscow’s mayor described the wave of drones as the “largest ever” drone attack on the Russian capital and said there had been damage to a Moscow oil refinery and a residential building.Across the wider Moscow region, the attack killed two people and wounded 20, local Gov. The dead were a 74-year-old man and a 44-year-old woman, he said.Writing on social media, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Kyiv had used a range of missiles and drones in the attack — including Ukraine's domestically made Flamingo and Pelican missiles — to hit oil and logistics facilities."These are billions of dollars that sustain the war machine," Zelenskyy said, referring to the financial pressure that Kyiv hopes to put on Russia's economy.Ukraine also continued to fend off Russian attacks, Zelenskyy said.
A Russian drone strike hit a monastery in Ukraine's Kherson region Saturday, killing a member of the clergy and wounding four people, he said.A Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital also killed two children and their mother on Saturday evening, said Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv regional state administration. He later said that another child wounded in the same attack had died in hospital on Sunday.Russia votes in an election devoid of oppositionThe attack took place on the final day of Russia's first wartime parliamentary election — balloting that has been virtually devoid of opposition to President Vladimir Putin’s policies and is all but certain to cement the Kremlin’s dominance.Russia was also holding the vote in the four Ukrainian regions that Moscow illegally annexed after the war began but still doesn’t fully control, and in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014. Kyiv has denounced the action as illegal.In a Russian-occupied area of Ukraine's Kherson region, a Ukrainian attack killed a member of the local electoral committee, Russia's Central Election Commission said in a statement.Russia’s Ministry of Defense said Sunday that its forces shot down a total of 1,110 Ukrainian drones across Russia, as well as over the annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea and the waters of th…
At least two people were killed in Moscow Sunday when Ukraine launched the biggest drone attack yet on the Russian capital, the city mayor said. The attack comes as Russians voted... Ukraine says it used a newly developed ballistic missile in the attacks, which also targeted other parts of Russia.
Ukraine said one of Russia's key oil industry facilities and a Russian logistics facility were hit. (AFP pic)MOSCOW: Hundreds of drones targeting Moscow and its surrounding region killed at least two people and damaged a major refinery on the final day of Russia's parliamentary elections, the authorities said Sunday.The capital's mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that more than 1,600 drones had been intercepted and shot down, 450 of which were aimed at Moscow.He accused Ukraine of attempting to interfere with a tightly controlled three-day election that is set to tighten president Vladimir Putin's 26-year grip on power."The unprecedented attack was clearly planned with the aim of disrupting the elections. The enemy did not succeed," he said on Telegram.Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky praised the strikes, saying: "Our long-range responses had a very significant impact in the Moscow region last night"."One of Russia's key oil industry facilities and the aggressor's logistics facility were hit.
These are billions of dollars that sustain the war machine," he posted on X.Moscow regional governor Andrey Vorobyov said on the social media platform that at least two people were killed - a 44-year-old woman and an elderly man - in two separate locations."A fire triggered by a drone crashing into a 21-storey building also led to 400 people being evacuated," Vorobyov said.He did not specify the drones' origin.The attacks come at a time when Kyiv stepped up its long-range drone strike campaign against Russia in recent months, particularly against energy infrastructure to target a vital source of the Kremlin's revenue to fund its war effort, now in its fifth year."A facility on the territory of the Moscow Oil Refinery has been damaged," Sobyanin added, noting that no casualties had been reported so far and that emergency services were on the scene.This major refinery has already been hit by Ukrainian strikes in recent months.The latest strike comes after US president Donald Trump said Monday that Ukraine and Russia had agreed not to target each other's energy facilities.It also comes after Russians began voting on Friday in the country's first parliamentary election since Moscow sent troops to Ukraine in February 2022, setting off a conflict that has killed hundreds of thousands.Only parties that support Putin and the Kremlin's military campaign have been registered to r…
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