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A Russian missile attack killed 10 people on Tuesday in a village in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region, Ukrainian authorities said.
“This morning the Russians launched a brutal attack on a busy intersection in Pechenihy, Kharkiv region — a location with a post office and stores, surrounded only by residential buildings,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on X.
Zelenskyy posted photos of a destroyed building, cars on fire and emergency responders carrying people on stretchers.
“We will definitely respond to this Russian strike,” he said. A further 17 people were injured in the attack, the governor of the surrounding region, Oleh Syniehubov, said on the Telegram messaging app.
There was no immediate public comment from Russia on the attack.
The strike on the village damaged 10 private buildings, a café, a post office, a store and at least seven cars, Syniehubov said.
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office said that according to preliminary information, Russia used two small Banderol cruise missiles.
A local official told public broadcaster Suspilne that the strikes had hit the central part of the village, where the café, post office and shops are located.
Large-scale drone offensive from Ukraine
Ukraine, meanwhile, launched 620 drones at Moscow and surrounding areas into the early hours of Tuesday morning, the capital’s mayor said, in one of Kyiv’s biggest air assaults on the region.
Russian forces downed 180 of the drones over the Moscow region and emergency services were working at crash sites, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin wrote on Telegram, without going into detail on any casualties or damage.
Drones hit a warehouse of Russian e-commerce company Wildberries and other facilities near Moscow, regional Governor Andrei Vorobyov said separately. At least three people, including a 10-year-old girl, were injured in the region, he added.
Wildberries, a frequent target of Kyiv’s attacks following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, said drone debris hit a wall at the warehouse, causing minor damage.
Several other Russian-controlled regions, including Crimea, which Moscow annexed in 2014, also reported heavy attacks from Ukraine.
Krymenergo, the Crimean peninsula’s largest power supplier, said southern districts came under Ukrainian drone attacks overnight.
It said several settlements have been cut off from power supplies as a result of the attacks, and that the situation with power deliveries has remained challenging in northwestern, eastern and southern parts of the region.
Russia warned Britain on Tuesday it would face consequences for supplying drones to Ukraine used to attack targets on Russian territory.
Russia’s embassy in London was responding to a report in the Times newspaper on Saturday which said British-made drones had been used for long-range strikes against Russia for the first time.
“London’s actions will inevitably carry consequences for which it will have to answer,” the embassy said in a statement posted on its Telegram channel. “The deeper its involvement in the conflict and the greater its support for Kiev’s terrorist machinery, the higher the price it will pay.”
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Britain’s Defence Ministry did not confirm whether British drones have been used.
Asked about the Russian embassy comments, a Defence Ministry spokesperson said: “Britain stands shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine and we are committed to providing the equipment Ukraine needs to defend itself against Putin’s illegal invasion.”
In June, Britain said it would provide 150,000 drones to Ukraine by the end of 2026 as part of a £752-million ($1.4-billion Cdn) funding package.
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