At least five people have lost their lives and another has been injured this Sunday after a drone attack attributed to the Armed Forces of Ukraine against the Rostov region, in southeastern Russia, according to local authorities.
"Tonight, as a result of an airstrike against the Rostov region, three people have died and another has been injured and has been taken to the hospital," announced the governor of the region, Yuri Sliusar, on his social media before reporting the discovery of two other lifeless bodies.
The regional official, who has conveyed his "deepest condolences" to the relatives of the deceased, explained that Russian forces have shot down "more than 150 drones and missiles in three cities and nine districts" during the air offensive launched from Kiev.
In addition, he detailed that several buildings in the town of Kamensk have suffered significant damage, with private homes and administrative buildings being "the most affected."
The fires declared in the towns of Staraya and Volchenski have already been extinguished, while emergency services are keeping another fire in a wooded area of the Kamenski district under control, although it is still active.
Overall, damage has been reported in the urban districts of Kamensk-Shakhtinski, Gukovo, Donetsk, Kamenskoye, Konstantinovski, Millerovski, Matveyevo-Kurganski, Chertkovski, Sholokhovski, Tsimlyanski, Tarasovski, and Verkhnedonski.
According to the report released by Russian authorities, during the early hours of this Sunday around 600 Ukrainian drones have flown over the Moscow region, the capital of the country.
"Between yesterday afternoon and 6:30 this morning, 600 drones were flying over the Moscow region, of which 201 were destroyed in the region," clarified the mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobianin.
Hours earlier, the Moscow mayor had indicated that 132 drones were shot down as they approached the capital. Three people were injured in the attack near one of the access roads to the city.
The war in Ukraine began in February 2022, when Russia launched a large-scale military offensive that Russian President Vladimir Putin presented as an operation to protect the population of Donbas from "a genocide by the Kiev regime" and to respond to the alleged security risks for Russia arising from NATO's eastward advance.
Since then, drone attacks against military targets, infrastructure, and other facilities located in territories controlled by Russia have become a common tactic in the development of the conflict.