At least seven people died and 11 were reportedly injured in a drone attack in the Russian controlled Donetsk Region of Ukraine, as both the sides escalated attacks.
Taking to Telegram, Deni Pushilin, Russian appointed region head said Wednesday a bus travelling between Moscow and Simeferopol in Crimea was hit.
The attack came ahead of a major economic forum hosted by Vladimir Putin in the city. The investment forum has been described as Putin’s ‘Russian Davos’ and will bring together leaders from around the world as the Kremlin looks to stoke Russia’s war-weary economy.
According to the local media houses, the Investigative Committee has launched a criminal investigation under the category ‘ terrorist attack’. According to a statement by the governor of St Petersburg, infrastructure in several districts was hit damaging and wounding several. 59 drones were shot in the region resulting in a fire breakout at an oil terminal in Kirovsky district- the largest terminals in the region. In view of the strikes, airspace in the Polkava region were closed.
Another target was an enterprise involved in making Russian weapons situated 600 kms from the frontline, he added. Drones also hit the city of Michurinsk in the central Russian Tambov region where an industrial facility, an apartment building and a library were damaged.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday morning Ukrainian President claimed ‘important facilities on Russian territory were hit last night’. “Among them was the Petersburg Oil Terminal. The distance from Ukraine’s state border to this facility of Russia’s oil industry, which serves the war, is about 1,100 kilometers. Purely military targets at the Kronstadt base were also hit,” Zelenskyy said
Russia on Wednesday morning intercepted around 350 drones were intercerpted in the region overnight. According to the air force, 54 drones and 33 missiles had passed through its multilayered air defence system. At least 23 people were killed in the attacks, according to local authorities
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