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Moscow: At least 26 people were injured in overnight Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia’s Moscow Oblast, according to regional governor Andrei Vorobyov on Saturday, as cross-border hostilities continue.
Two people were injured in the city of Noginsk, about 55 kilometres east of Moscow, where debris from a downed drone caused a fire at an oil depot, Vorobyov said in a statement posted on social media.
The other 24 were injured after a drone crashed onto the premises of a warehouse in the city of Elektrostal, about 60 kilometres east of Moscow, he said, adding that some of the injured are in serious condition, Xinhua news agency reported.
A maternity hospital and an apartment building close to the oil depot in Noginsk were evacuated as a precaution. All patients and medical staff were transferred to other medical facilities, while women requiring specialised care were sent to hospitals in nearby cities.
The Bogorodsky urban district, about 45 kilometres east of Moscow, reportedly suffered the most severe damage, the governor said.
Forty-eight Ukrainian drones were shot down by Russian air defence forces in the Moscow region overnight, he said.
Meanwhile, A Ukrainian drone strike on a logistics centre in the Tambov region killed seven people early on Saturday, Tambov Oblast Governor Evgeny Pervyshov said on social media.
Pervyshov said the attack occurred at a logistics centre in Kotovsk, Tambov Oblast, killing seven night shift workers and injuring 24 others. The fire at the logistics centre warehouse has been extinguished, and firefighting efforts are ongoing.
Russian forces conducted 19 rounds of strikes on Ukraine’s key port infrastructure, used for military supplies and fuel storage, in the past week, the Russian Defence Ministry said Friday.
The strikes targeted 24 Ukrainian vessels, including 14 dry cargo ships, three ferries, two container ships, a tanker, a cable-laying vessel, a floating dock and two patrol boats, in Odesa, Chornomorsk, Yuzhne and the Dnieper-Bug area, the ministry said.
Russian forces also struck Ukrainian defence industry facilities, ammunition depots, logistics hubs, fuel and energy infrastructure, transport facilities, as well as sites for the production and storage of long-range drones. Temporary deployment sites of Ukrainian armed forces and foreign mercenaries were also hit.
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