Ukraine hits Russia's Dubna satellite site for second time, Zelenskyy says
Kyiv said the strike was part of a wider drone campaign aimed at disrupting Russian military coordination and intelligence gathering.
- On Tuesday, Ukraine hit The Dubna Satellite Communications Centre near Moscow for the second time, with President Volodymr Zelensky stating the site lies 500 km from the border and coordinates Russian forces.
- This strike is part of a 40-day campaign Zelensky announced last week to pressure the Kremlin, as Kyiv has recently expanded long-range drone operations targeting critical Russian military infrastructure.
- The Russian Ministry of Defense claimed to have intercepted or destroyed 419 drones, while Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin reported air defenses destroyed more than 60 drones after waves were launched Monday night.
- Rescue workers extracted two adults and two children, though a six-month-old infant died Tuesday after a drone crashed into a home in Moscow, Moscow region governor Andrey Vorobyov reported.
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov condemned the attack on Tuesday, stating 'civilians are suffering, children are dying,' as the Kremlin frames the ongoing Ukrainian drone campaign as a humanitarian crisis.
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By Kosta Gak, Clare Sebastian and Anna Chernova, CNN - Ukraine announced Tuesday that it had attacked, for the second time in just over a week, one of Russia's largest satellite communications centers, a campaign in which Kyiv is escalating its long-range drone strikes to pressure the Kremlin into ending the four-year war. The satellite communications center in Dubna, in the northern Moscow region, about 500 km (310 miles) from the Ukrainian bor…
The Ukrainian military struck again on Tuesday at the Russian space center in the city of Dubna, located about 110 kilometers northwest of Moscow. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced this on Facebook, posting footage of the attack.
Ukraine launches major drone attack on Moscow, hitting a satellite center and killing a baby
Ukraine said on Tuesday it hit one of Russia’s largest satellite communication centers for the second time in just over a week, as Kyiv ramps up long-range drone attacks to pressure the Kremlin to end its four-year-old war.
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