Kyiv [Ukraine], August 18 (ANI): Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said 10 people were killed after Russian forces launched a strike on a busy intersection in Pechenihy in the Kharkiv region on Tuesday morning local time.
In a post on X, Zelenskyy said, “This morning, the Russians launched a brutal attack on a busy intersection in Pechenihy, Kharkiv region — a location with a post office and stores, surrounded only by residential buildings.”
“As of now, 10 people have been reported killed. My condolences to their families and loved ones,” he said, adding that many people were injured and were receiving necessary medical care.
Zelenskyy said first responders had extinguished the fire and that emergency response services continued working at the site.
“All the circumstances of this tragedy are being established,” he said.
“We will definitely respond to this Russian strike,” Zelenskyy said, while calling on Ukraine’s international partners to increase pressure on Russia.
“And it is equally important that our partners also complement our just kinetic responses with their own actions to put pressure on Russia and support Ukraine,” he added.
The incident comes as, earlier on Sunday, Russian air defense forces intercepted and destroyed 822 Ukrainian drones, while at least six people were killed in Ukrainian drone attacks, according to a series of reports by Russian news agency TASS.
According to TASS, 822 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones over Russian regions and the Black and Azov seas were intercepted and destroyed overnight, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
“Russian air defense forces intercepted and destroyed 822 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles over Belgorod, Bryansk, Vladimir, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Oryol, Rostov, Ryazan, Tambov and Tula regions, the Moscow Region, the Krasnodar Region and the Republic of Crimea, as well as over the Azov and Black seas, from 8 p.m. Moscow time (5 p.m. GMT) on August 15 to 8 a.m. Moscow time (5 a.m. GMT) on August 16,” the Defense Ministry said.
Meanwhile, two separate TASS reports on Sunday said at least six people were killed and four injured in drone attacks in Rostov and Moscow.
According to a report on Sunday, three people were killed and another was injured in a drone attack on southern Russia’s Rostov region, Governor Yury Slyusar reported.
“Last night, three people were killed as a result of an aerial attack on the Rostov Region, and one more has been hospitalized with injuries,” he wrote on the Max channel, according to TASS.
The report further mentioned, quoting the official, that more than 150 UAVs were destroyed over three cities and nine districts in the region in the Ukrainian attack.
In another report earlier that day, TASS said three people were injured in a drone attack near the Moscow Automobile Ring Road (MKAD), according to Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin.
“Defense Ministry air defense capabilities have downed another nine drones targeting Moscow. Three people were injured near MKAD; they are being given all necessary assistance. Emergency specialists are working at the scene where [drone] debris fell,” Sobyanin wrote on the Max channel, according to TASS. (ANI)
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