An overnight Ukrainian drone strike on the Moscow region city of Voskresensk has left two people dead, regional Governor Andrey Vorobyov announced on Monday morning.
Vorobyov added that a residential building had caught fire, killing “a 76-year-old woman and her 6-year-old grandson”, though he did not specify whether the drone had struck the building or whether the fire was caused by a downed projectile.
As well as over Voskresensk, Russian air defence systems intercepted Ukrainian drones over the nearby city of Kolomna, a small city also to the southeast of Moscow, Vorobyev said, though there have been no reports of damage or fatalities there.
According to the Russian Defence Ministry, 84 Ukrainian drones were shot down overnight over various regions of Russia, four of which it said had been shot down over the Moscow region.
In the western Bryansk and Belgorod regions, the authorities claimed to have downed 24 and 21 drones respectively, while an electrical component factory in the Bryansk region city of Kryachev was damaged by drones that reached their targets, according to Telegram channel Astra.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed that it had fired four Neptune missiles at the facility in Kryachev on Monday, saying that it had continued “to take all measures to undermine the military-economic potential of the Russian occupiers and force the Russian Federation to stop its armed aggression against Ukraine.”
The Russian authorities are yet to confirm the strike.