A woman died in the southern town of Beryslav UkraineAfter Russian drone crashed into his carAs reported by the authorities this Friday. According to Olexander Prokudin, head of the Kherson military administration, While the woman’s husband was taken to hospital, a woman was also injured in attack.
Authorities had previously announced that at least one person was killed and 13 people were injured in Russian attacks in the city of Pokrovsk, hundreds of kilometers to the east. The city’s military administration claimed that the Russian army used two Iskander missiles in the attack that damaged two buildings in the city center.
According to the news of the Ukrainian Civil Defense on Telegram, rescuers pulled out at least three people alive from under the rubble of buildings. Pokrovsk is located in the besieged Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, and about 50 kilometers to the southeast is the town of Avdiivka, long a frontline between Ukrainian and Russian forces.
In recent months, the scale of fighting on this part of the front has increased significantly, at a time when Russia has been fighting against neighboring Ukraine for almost 20 months. Attacks that regularly kill Ukrainian civilians and damage critical infrastructureAs Ukraine continues to intensify its attacks on the peninsula Crimea illegally annexed by Russia In 2014.
On Friday, Ukrainian media reported that two ships belonging to the Russian Black Sea Fleet were attacked near the port city of Sevastopol. According to reports citing intelligence sources, the Bujan missile boat and the Pavel Dzerzhavin patrol ship were attacked by Ukrainian naval drones with “experimental weapons”; The Alrossa submarine was also targeted.
Pavel Dzerzhavin is one of four corvettes used by the Russian Black Sea Fleet as heavy patrol ships. These warships can also be used to launch cruise missiles, with which Russia has periodically bombed Ukraine since the start of the war almost 20 months ago.