Casualties Reported as Drone Strikes Escalate Across Frontline Regions

(MENAFN) Authorities in the Russia-controlled Luhansk area in eastern Ukraine stated on Sunday that a drone strike allegedly carried out by Ukrainian forces resulted in three deaths and three injuries.

According to statements from the region’s Moscow-installed leadership, the attack occurred on Saturday evening in the village of Bulhakovka in the Kreminna municipal district. The local head of administration, Leonid Pasechnik, said on a Russian social media platform that the strike hit civilians near a residential house.

“An enemy drone deliberately struck young people who were outside near a house. Two eighteen-year-old young men and a 28-year-old girl died on the spot from their injuries. A fifteen-year-old boy and girl, as well as a 21-year-old young man, were wounded,” he added.

In a separate development, Ukrainian officials reported that the death toll from Russian strikes on the city of Dnipro on Saturday evening has risen to nine. According to the head of the Dnipropetrovsk military administration, another injured victim later died in hospital.

“A 24-year-old man who was wounded during the evening attack of the Russians on the Dnieper River died in hospital. During the day, enemy strikes on the city ended 9 lives,” he said.

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s military leadership stated that its overnight operations targeted the Yaroslavsky oil refinery and air defense systems inside Russian territory.

Due to the ongoing war, the information provided by both sides could not be independently verified.

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