kill two near Russian border

Two people were killed and several wounded as a result of Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian border regions, local authorities said yesterday.

In the city of Rostov-on-Don, a drone attack sparked a fire in a residential building and the body of a man was found in the charred remains of one of the apartments, the local governor, Yuri Slyusar, wrote on Telegram.

The Rostov region is a key military hub for Russia’s four-year-long campaign on Ukraine, reports AFP. Four other people, including a four-year-old child, were wounded in strikes elsewhere in the Rostov region, which sparked fires in several industrial areas.

In the border region of Belgorod, a woman was killed and a man wounded when a Ukrainian drone struck a vehicle, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on Telegram.

Russian drones struck infrastructure in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih yesterday, forcing emergency power blackouts for over 45,000 customers and disrupting heat supplies, administration head Oleksandr Vilkul said.