Russian drone and missile strikes have killed three people and wounded at least ten in Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region, the city’s military administration chief said on Monday. The Russian Ministry of Defence claimed that its forces had destroyed 36 Ukrainian drones overnight.
A Russian drone attack on Novhorod-Siverskyi in Ukraine’s northern Chernihiv region damaged residential buildings and a shop. Oleksandr Seliverstov, head of the Novhorod-Siverskyi District Military Administration, announced the damage from the strike in a social media post on Facebook, adding that there were no casualties in the attack.
Meanwhile, another drone strike on Ukraine’s southern Odesa region triggered fires at energy and port infrastructure, leaving thousands without power. The Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine said the attack damaged port equipment and several docked vessels.
“One of the ports is experiencing power outages, and specialists are already working to restore power,” Kuleba wrote in a separate social media post. These latest attacks have come at a time when Russia is hosting a meeting in Moscow of heads of government from the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).
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The alliance includes some of the most powerful nations in the world, including Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, India, Pakistan and Iran.
Furthermore, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy is visiting Paris for a meeting with French president Emmanuel Macron in a new bid to secure weaponry. Escalations between the two sides have intensified recently. Both sides claim to be inflicting massive damage on each other in the ensuing battle.
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