Two people were killed and four more injured after a Russian air strike in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine, according to the head of the regional administration, Oleh Syniehubov.
A guided bomb hit a blood transfusion center in that region, in the Kupyan district, on the night of August 5, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
“This war crime alone says it all about Russian aggression,” Zelenskyy wrote on social media. “Defeating terrorists is a matter of honor for all who value life.”
An octogenarian woman was killed by Ukrainian shells in Donetsk, which is under Russian control, Moscow-appointed mayor Alexei Kulemzin said on Sunday.
The main building of the M. Tugan-Baranovsky University of Economics and Trade also caught fire in the attack, said Denis Pushilin, the Moscow-installed leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, which has been illegally annexed by Moscow.
The roof of the building collapsed in the fire, but there were no casualties, according to the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations.
Moscow’s Vnukovo airport, 15 kilometers (9 miles) southwest of the Russian capital, briefly halted flights on Sunday morning after a drone was shot down in the airspace around the city.
The drone was destroyed by anti-aircraft defenses in the Podolsk region, in the suburbs of Moscow, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Authorities in Ukraine, who tend to avoid commenting on attacks on Russian soil, did not take responsibility for the attack.
Flights had already been suspended at the airport on July 30, when two drones crashed in Moscow’s financial district after being electronically intercepted by Russian air defenses.
It was one of four attacks on the Russian capital in a month, leaving Moscow’s vulnerability on the table as Russia’s war in Ukraine neared its two-year anniversary.
The attempted attack followed a night of heavy fighting in different parts of Ukraine.
In addition to shelling in the east of the country, the Ukrainian air force reported 70 air and sea-launched missile and drone strikes overnight on Sunday.
The barrage included aircraft-launched cruise missiles over the Caspian Sea and Iranian-made Shahed-136/131 unmanned aircraft.
Serhiy Tyurin, number two in the Khmelnytsky region’s military administration, said on Sunday that Russian missiles had damaged several buildings in the area, injured one person and set a fire in a warehouse.
FOUNTAIN: Associated Press
