Russia launches more than 200 drones as Ukraine truce expires
President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday that Russia had launched more than 200 long-range drones at Ukraine overnight, after a three-day halt in fighting brokered by the United States ended.
"Russia itself chose to end the partial silence that had lasted for several days. Overnight, more than 200 attack drones were launched against Ukraine," Zelensky said in a statement on social media.
The strikes killed a man and wounded a woman in the area of Synelnykove in the Dnipropetrovsk region, the head of the regional military administration Oleksandr Ganzha posted on Telegram.
He added three others were wounded in strikes elsewhere in Dnipropetrovsk.
Russia meanwhile said Tuesday it had shot down 27 Ukrainian drones overnight.
From midnight to 7:00 am Moscow time (2100 to 0400 GMT), "air defense duty assets intercepted and destroyed 27 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles" over the Belgorod, Voronezh and Rostov regions, Russia's defense ministry said in a statement.
Source: Agence France Presse
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