Kindergartens and Schools Are Being Hit: The Ukraine War Just Took a Tragic Turn as Russian Drones Attack
Kyiv officials said 277 drones hit civilian sites and injured dozens, while Ukraine reported retaliatory strikes on Russian fuel and defense facilities.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed Ukrainian forces conducted overnight drone strikes on Russian defense plants in Tula and Voronezh regions, alongside oil facilities in Krasnodar Krai.
- Following a weekend of intense bombardment across Kyiv, Russian drones targeted civilian infrastructure including schools and kindergartens, leaving at least two people dead and multiple others injured.
- SBU units struck four oil depots in Krasnodar Krai, including the Edelweiss-95 facility with 4,500 cubic meters storage capacity, while analysts suggest defense plant strikes targeted solid rocket fuel production sites.
- Russia's defense ministry claimed its air defenses intercepted 254 fixed-wing drones overnight, though officials reported infrastructure damage and casualties across several regions, including a collapsed railway bridge in Bryansk.
- Amid this escalation, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to engage with world leaders at the G20, though the Kremlin previously ruled the meeting "impossible.
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Ukraine strikes Russian defense factories and oil facilities, Zelensky says
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian forces carried out overnight strikes on two defense factories in Russia’s Tula and Voronezh regions on September 28. He also said the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) targeted oil facilities in Krasnodar Krai. According to Zelensky, Ukrainian troops used long-range weapons against sites in Kaluga and Oryol regions that Russia uses for drone attacks against Ukraine. In Bryansk region, he said, Ukrainia…
Kindergartens and Schools Are Being Hit: The Ukraine War Just Took a Tragic Turn as Russian Drones Attack
Ukraine hit back overnight into Monday. Zelensky said his forces used "sanctions," his euphemism for long-range drone strikes, against two defense plants in the Tula and Voronezh regions, while Security Service of Ukraine units struck oil facilities in the Krasnodar region over the past 24 hours. Targets were also hit in the Kaluga and Oryol regions, which Zelensky said Russia uses for drone attacks on Ukraine, as well as in the Bryansk region a…
Russian strikes on Kyiv kills 3 as Ukraine targets oil, military sites
In recent Russian strikes on Kyiv, three people lost their lives, including an Azerbaijani citizen. In Kharkiv, numerous injuries were documented. Ukraine retaliated with targeted counterstrikes against Russian oil and military sites, impacting areas such as Tula and Voronezh, while a railway bridge in Bryansk was also attacked. Ongoing Russian offensives are causing considerable destruction to vital infrastructure across the region, intensifyin…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Monday that his country's forces had shelled oil facilities in Russia's Krasnodar region. He also indicated that two factories in the Tula and Voronezh regions of Russia were shelled overnight. In recent months, Ukraine has increasingly targeted areas deep inside Russia, far from the front lines. For its part, the Russian presidency announced on Monday that Ukraine is paying the price for its a…
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diarioestrategia.clZelenski has insisted that these attacks respond to Russian bombings “against life.”
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