At least two people have lost their lives this Tuesday in a drone attack carried out by the Russian Army against the Ukrainian town of Ladizhin, in the central province of Vínnitsa, according to local authorities in the context of the invasion launched by Moscow in February 2022.
The secretary of the Ladizhin Town Council, Oleksander Kolomiets, has said in a statement published on social networks that the attack has also caused damage to "civil infrastructure" and has announced three days of mourning in remembrance of the two fatalities, whose identities have not yet come to light.
The Ukrainian Air Force has said that Russian troops have launched more than 160 drones against Ukraine over the last few hours, before pointing out that 135 have been shot down. However, it has confirmed impacts in 19 locations across the country, as well as the fall of fragments from interceptions in other nine places.
For its part, the Russian Ministry of Defense has claimed drone attacks against "energy infrastructure facilities that provide support to companies of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex," as well as against "ships that transport military equipment and dual-use cargo intended for the Armed Forces of Ukraine".
The department has also indicated that Russia's air defense systems have shot down during the last few hours 155 Ukrainian drones in several regions of the country, including those of Krasnodar and Nóvgorod, as well as over the Crimean Peninsula, annexed by Moscow in 2014, a step not recognized internationally.