Kyiv mentioned Sunday it had destroyed 21 of 49 Iranian-made “Shahed” drones fired by Russia in a single day, including that six guided missiles had additionally focused the northeastern metropolis of Kharkiv.

The contemporary Russian strikes got here a day after an unprecedented assault on town of Belgorod, and because the two sides took turns accusing one another of pummelling civilian areas of their shared frontier area over the weekend.

The Ukrainian air power mentioned in a press release on Telegram Sunday that the in a single day drones have been notably focused at “the entrance line of defence, in addition to at civilian, army and infrastructure amenities within the front-line territories”.

It didn’t say whether or not the six missiles had hit their targets.

Oleg Sinegubov, the top of Kharkiv metropolis’s army administration, mentioned there had been 28 civilians wounded within the assault on town.

The injured included two youngsters and a international citizen, he mentioned.

The strike follows the deadliest assault on civilians in Russia for the reason that begin of the battle in February 2022.

At the least 22 individuals have been killed and dozens extra wounded on Saturday in Belgorod, a Russian metropolis simply 30 kilometres (19 miles) from the border that has been repeatedly struck by what Moscow says is indiscriminate shelling.

Moscow mentioned Saturday’s assault included the usage of controversial cluster munitions, and informed an emergency assembly on the UN Safety Council that Kyiv had focused a sports activities centre, an ice rink and a college.

AFP

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