A Ukrainian drone exploded on a busy beach in southern Russia, killing seven people, including three children, local Russian authorities said.
Social media footage verified by the BBC shows how drone he races towards the cliff before crashing on the beach, while tourists watch from the shore and from the water to see what is happening. The attack took place on the beach near the village of Arhipo-Osipovka on the Black Sea. With a warm climate, long beaches and a developed tourist infrastructure, this is a popular holiday destination among Russians, especially since sanctions limited international travel for many.
Seven people were killed, including three children.
The total number of injured reached 40, and 17 people were taken to the hospital, said the governor of the Krasnodar region, Veniamin Kondratiev.
He accused Ukraine of a "deliberate attack on civilians." Ukraine did not comment. Both sides always deny that they deliberately target civilians.
It is still unclear what the drone was targeting. Some sources from Ukrainian Telegram channels claim that it crashed on the beach because the Russians jammed the signal, which is part of electronic warfare. Russian media quoted several eyewitnesses as saying that the explosion was preceded by gunfire, suggesting that air defenses may have tried to shoot down the drone.
Tourists and residents of Arhipo-Osipovka told local media that no sirens sounded before the drone attack.
"We covered ourselves with deck chairs and didn't see where it exploded," said one tourist. Another person said that although they did not see the drone hit, they could hear "a gunshot, like a machine gun" followed by an explosion.
"All this happened in front of my children. My child is having a nervous breakdown," said a third person.
Over the past year, Ukraine has had increasing success in launching long-range strikes deep into Russia, hitting energy infrastructure and commercial warehouses it claims are used for military purposes.
On several occasions, these strikes have caused the death of civilians, and eight people died in different Russian cities over the weekend.
Early Tuesday, drones struck a warehouse near Russia's second-largest city, St. Petersburg, regional governor Alexander Drozdenko said. He did not specify the name of the facility.
In recent weeks, Ukrainian attacks have specifically targeted warehouses owned by Wildberry - a major online retailer dubbed the "Russian Amazon".
The latest attack hit a warehouse in the Vladimir region, east of Moscow, on Monday night. So far, dozens of Wildberry warehouses scattered across Russia have been affected - some of them thousands of kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
Kiev claims that the Wildberry warehouses are being used to supply the Russian military, which Moscow denies. And yet, until recently, the platform sold a variety of military goods, such as bulletproof vests, along with products for civilian applications and drone manufacturing.
Two girls and an elderly woman were killed during the night in a Russian attack with guided aerial bombs on the city of Sumy, the head of the Sumy region Oleh Khrykhorov announced, Ukrainian agency Ukrinform reported on Tuesday.
He said that the girls who died were five and ten years old and that their bodies were found in the ruins of the family home.
In the Russian attack, six guided aerial bombs hit civilian infrastructure in the city, while Ukrainian air defenses shot down two more bombs approaching populated areas, he added. Residential buildings and other buildings were damaged, and four people sought medical help due to acute stress reactions.
At least nine people were killed and dozens injured in Russia's missile attack on Kiev on Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced. The mayor of Kyiv said that a residential building in the Shevchenkiv district was partially destroyed, and people were trapped inside.
Last week, a family of 10 was killed in a Russian attack on a building in the Ukrainian region of Kryvyi Rih.
Source: BBC
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