An eight-year-old girl was killed in the city of Ramenskoye during another Ukrainian drone raid targeting the Russian capital, Moscow Region Governor Andrey Vorobyev has said.
On Thursday, Ukrainian Defense Minister Mikhail Fedorov published a photo of him showing the results of one of the largest UAV attacks on Moscow by Kiev to his German counterpart, Boris Pistorius, during a NATO meeting in Brussels. Pistorius and other officials from the bloc were seen looking at Fedorov’s phone with interest.
Air defenses shot down at least 194 drones on their approach to the Russian capital on June 18, with at least 17 people being wounded in several cities near Moscow due to the raid.
Ukraine kept sending more drones towards Russia’s largest city, populated by over 13 million, on Friday. At least 33 aerial targets were intercepted, according to Sobyanin.
Vorobyev reported on Telegram that there was one fatality as result of the latest raid, with an eight-year-old girl dying in a blaze caused by one of Kiev’s UAVs in Ramenskoye, south-west of the capital. At the time of the attack, the child was at home with her grandmother, who remained unharmed, he added.
“I extend my sincere condolences to the [victim’s] family and loved ones. We will provide the family with all necessary assistance and support,” Vorobyev wrote.
According to the governor, a total of 18 apartment blocks were damaged across Moscow Region during Kiev’s raid.
The town of Kotelniki, east of the capital, was affected the most, with 13 multi-story residential buildings hit by UAV debris there, he said. Two apartment blocks were also damaged in Lyubertsy and one each in Ramenskoye, Zhukovsky, and Balashikha.
Experts are already assessing the damage in order to begin swift repairs, and the owners of the affected apartments will receive monetary compensation from the state, Vorobyev said.