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Ukrainian drones kill 5 near Moscow; Russia hits Black Sea
A Ukrainian drone attack in the Moscow region killed five people and wounded 10 on Tuesday, regional Governor Andrei Vorobyov said. The strike hit an industrial zone near Chekhov, while separate drone…
The Story in Brief
A Ukrainian drone attack in the Moscow region killed five people and wounded 10 on Tuesday, regional Governor Andrei Vorobyov said. The strike hit an industrial zone near Chekhov, while separate drone attacks set fire to Wildberries warehouses near St Petersburg and in the Tver region. Earlier, a Russian drone struck a beach at the Black Sea resort of Arkhipo-Osipovka on Monday, killing seven including four children, with 58 wounded. Ukraine did not comment on that attack.
In retaliation, Russia struck Ukrainian ports in Chornomorsk, Mykolaiv and Pivdennyi, damaging vessels and port infrastructure. Russian glide bombs in Sumy region killed two girls aged 5 and 10 and an elderly woman. Turkey appealed to both sides to ensure Black Sea navigation safety, warning that attacks on civilian shipping risk global food supplies. The UN says over 16,000 civilians have been killed in Ukraine since the invasion.
The Indian Opinion
Both Moscow and Kyiv claim to strike only military targets, but the mounting civilian toll on both sides, four children on a Russian beach, a 5-year-old girl in Sumy, exposes that claim as hollow. The narrative of surgical precision collapses under repeated evidence of crowded beaches and private homes being hit. What will test this war's trajectory is whether the rising threat to Black Sea shipping, and Turkey's warning about global food security, forces either side to pull back from infrastructure attacks that kill ordinary people.
Source: thehindu.com
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