Four people, including a child, killed in Russia and Ukraine after latest exchange of drone strikes as diplomatic talks stall.
KYIV: Four people, including a child, were killed in Russia and Ukraine after the latest exchange of drone strikes between the warring countries, officials said on Wednesday.
As diplomatic talks have stalled and neither side has made a breakthrough on the front, Moscow and Kyiv have both stepped up their long-range drone attacks, firing swarms of the unmanned explosive-packed devices at each other on a nightly basis.
An overnight Ukrainian drone strike killed two people in the central Russian city of Syzran, home to one of the country’s top air force schools.
“Two people — an adult woman and a child — have died in Syzran following an attack by an enemy drone,” regional governor Vyacheslav Fedorischev said on social media.
Photos provided by the Russian emergencies ministry showed a four-storey apartment building partly collapsed, with rescuers working in the debris.
In Ukraine, Russian drones killed two people in the frontline regions of Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia, local officials said.
Russia said it had repelled 155 Ukrainian drones in the overnight attack.
Ukraine said Russia had launched 215 drones, of which 189 were intercepted.
Tens of thousands of civilians have been killed since Russia invaded in February 2022.
US-brokered talks on the conflict have failed to push the sides closer to a deal, with negotiations frozen for weeks amid the war in the Middle East.
