Two killed in Russian drone attack on Ukraine’s Kyiv region

Ukraine besides sends volley of drones into Russia, with aerial defences intercepting attacks connected 13 regions, including Moscow.

At slightest 3 radical person been killed successful a Russian drone onslaught adjacent Ukraine’s capital.

The interior ministry said connected Friday that drone debris killed 2 men and a pistillate successful the overnight onslaught connected the cardinal Kyiv region, damaging a residential flat building, 8 backstage houses, commercialized buildings, and respective backstage cars.

The onslaught came arsenic Russian authorities said the country’s aerial defence systems intercepted and destroyed 121 drones launched by Ukraine overnight. The drones were downed implicit 13 Russian regions, including 7 implicit Moscow and the adjacent region, the defence ministry said successful a connection connected Telegram.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the drones had been intercepted astatine respective locations astir the capital.

Russian quality agencies quoted the national aviation bureau arsenic saying 2 Moscow airports – Vnukovo and Domodedovo – were handling flights aft suspending operations. Six flights were redirected to different airports.

Other regions targeted by the attacks included Kursk, Bryansk, Belgorod and the Russian-annexed Crimean Peninsula, according to the defence ministry.

The governors of the Ryazan and Tula regions, some located southbound of Moscow, besides reported attacks.

US piles connected pressure

Moscow and Kyiv are vying for vantage up of imaginable negotiations successful the aboriginal days of US President Donald Trump‘s administration.

Before his inauguration, Trump promised to extremity the Ukraine warfare instantly upon taking office, raising expectations helium would leverage assistance to unit Kyiv to marque concessions to Russia, which invaded successful February 2022.

But this week helium stepped up unit connected Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to marque a deal, threatening tougher economical measures if Moscow does not hold to extremity the astir three-year-old war.

During an interrogation connected Thursday, Trump said: “If they don’t settee this warfare soon, similar astir immediately, I’m going to enactment monolithic tariffs connected Russia, and monolithic taxes, and besides large sanctions.”

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