Fatal drone strike hit Kyiv as Russian war plane crushes
Moscow on Monday intensified its offensive against Ukraine, shutting off the country’s electricity and killing eight people including in kamikaze drone assaults on the capital—as a Russian warplane crashed not far from the boundary.
According to Russian police, the plane crashed into a residential neighbourhood in Yeysk, a town in southwest Russia.
Communication from the Ministry of Emergency situations, cited by Russian news media, reported the final death toll as 13 killed and 19 injured as the search for survivors came to an end early yesterday after the wreck sparked a massive fire in a residential area.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is believed to be waging a vengeful campaign of attacking energy facilities before winter in an effort to reduce opposition in response to battlefield setbacks in his country’s eight-month war in Ukraine.
Denys Shmygal, the prime minister of Ukraine, claimed that five strikes by Russia on energy infrastructure in Kyiv, Sumy, and the central Dnepropetrovsk districts knocked out electricity in hundreds of towns and villages.
According to Ukraine States communication, a married couple expecting a child was among the four persons slain in Kyiv, and four more were killed in the Sumy region of the country’s northeast.
Dmytro Kuleba, Russia’s foreign minister, urged EU penalties on Iran after accusing it of giving Moscow drones.
The attacks happen exactly one week after Russian missiles barraged Kyiv and other towns on October 10 in the largest round of assaults in months, killing at least 19 people, injuring 105 others, and inciting a public outcry around the world.
