17-07-2025
- Politics
- Free Malaysia Today
Moscow, Kyiv trade deadly attacks
Russia's strikes on Ukraine killed one person in the central city of Dnipro. (Ukrainian emergency service/AP pic)
KYIV : Russia and Ukraine traded another wave of drone strikes overnight, both sides said today, in attacks that killed and wounded people on either side of the frontline.
Moscow has carried out nightly drone and missile barrages on Ukraine since launching its invasion in February 2022, with Kyiv responding with increasingly long-range strikes inside Russia as well as its own attacks on border areas.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has rejected calls for a ceasefire and escalated his army's strikes, defying US President Donald Trump's pledge of fresh weapons for Ukraine and harsh sanctions if a peace deal is not struck soon.
Russia's defence ministry said its air defences shot down 122 drones overnight, most of them in border regions.
In Russia's Belgorod border region, 'a woman was killed when an explosive device was dropped from a drone onto a private house', governor Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on Telegram.
He said three civilians had been killed a day earlier.
And in the Voronezh region, which also borders Ukraine, three teens were wounded when falling drone debris struck a building, regional governor Alexander Gusev wrote on Telegram.
Russia's strikes on Ukraine killed one person in the central city of Dnipro, governor Sergiy Lysak said.
Russia launched 64 drones, mostly targeting the central Dnipropetrovsk region, which includes Dnipro, according to Ukraine's air force.
It said it had shot down or disabled 41 of them.
That was far down on recent nights, where hundreds of self-exploding attack drones have been fired at the country.
Ukraine also said three people were killed and at least 27 wounded in a Russian airstrike on the frontline town of Dobropillia a day earlier.
