August 6th 2023.
The Kremlin's retaliation for Ukrainian drone strikes against a Russian tanker in the Black Sea was swift and devastating. On Saturday night, more than 70 air assault weapons were deployed against targets in western Ukraine, resulting in six deaths and multiple buildings damaged.
Serhiy Tyurin, deputy head of Ukraine’s Khmelnytsky region military administration in Western Ukraine, reported that the strikes came in three waves and that their intended target may have been an airfield in the city of Starokostyantyniv. Tragically, two of the fatalities occurred in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, and a further four people were injured. In Donetsk, another two deaths were reported.
A guided bomb is said to have hit a blood transfusion centre in Kharkiv earlier in the day, while shelling in the village of Podoly killed one 58-year-old woman and injured one 66-year-old man. In Donetsk, Kremlin-appointed officials reported that Ukrainian shelling killed a woman in her eighties and set fire to the main building of a local university, which reportedly collapsed without casualties.
Meanwhile, a Russian navy ship capsized after the Ukrainian attack, and a blaze at a warehouse near Starokostiantyniv, Khmelnytskyi region, western Ukraine was reported. Flights from Moscow’s Vnukovo airport, approximately nine miles southwest of the city, were briefly suspended on Sunday morning after a drone was shot down from the surrounding airspace. It marked the fourth strike against the Russian capital in the past month, with two drones crashing into Moscow’s business district after being jammed by local air defences on July 30.
[This article has been trending online recently and has been generated with AI. Your feed is customized.]
[Generative AI is experimental.]
