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Moscow/ Mykolaiv
Drone attacks
killed at least six people across Russia and Ukraine overnight into Tuesday,
according to officials on both sides.
Russia
Five people
were killed, and six others were wounded in the attack on the Moscow region,
the area surrounding the Russian capital, regional governor Andrei Vorobyov
said on Max, a Russian messaging platform, adding that air defense forces
repelled the strike early Tuesday.
All those
affected were receiving medical care, Vorobyov said, without identifying the
specific locations struck or the drones’ origin.
Drones also
targeted a storage facility near St. Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city,
according to Alexander Drozdenko, governor of the Leningrad region, which
surrounds the city.
Ukraine
In Mykolaiv, an
89-year-old woman was killed and seven other people were wounded in an
overnight Russian strike on a residential area, according to the city’s mayor,
Oleksandr Sienkevych.
Private homes
and apartment buildings sustained significant damage.
The strike
followed a Russian attack on the city on Monday that damaged two civilian
vessels.
Total
Casualties
The general
staff of Ukraine’s armed forces stated that Russian military losses since the
start of the full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022, had reached
approximately 1,451,750 personnel killed or wounded, including 1,240 over the
previous 24 hours, according to the Ukrainian state news agency Ukrinform. The
figures are Kyiv’s own accounting and could not be independently verified.
Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that about 50,000 Ukrainian service members
had been killed and roughly 400,000 wounded.
Russia has not
officially published its military casualty figures since the beginning of the
war.