Russian officials said Tuesday air defenses shot down several Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow, with the wreckage from one drone striking a high-rise building in the Russian capital.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Telegram the building was the same one struck during another Ukrainian drone attack on Sunday.
There were no injuries reported from the Tuesday attack.
Russia’s defense ministry said Tuesday its forces thwarted an attack by three Ukrainian sea drones that targeted a pair of Russian patrol vessels in the Black Sea.
Russia said the attack took place about 340 kilometers southwest of Sevastopol.
Russian attacks
Authorities in Ukraine’s southern city of Kherson said Russian shelling Tuesday hit a hospital, killing a doctor and wounding a nurse.
In the Kharkiv region, officials said Tuesday that Russian attacks using Iranian-made Shahed drones hit a building at an educational institution and a building at a sports complex.
Russian attacks on Ukrainian towns have left a trail of dead and injured, prompting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to stress Ukraine’s need for long-range weapons.
At least six people were killed by two Russian missiles that hit the city of Kryvyi Rih in southern Ukraine, Zelenskyy’s hometown, Ukrainian officials said Monday.
During his nightly video address Monday, Zelenskyy said preliminary data show that the two missiles were fired at Kryvyi Rih from Russian-occupied Crimea, from the area of Dzhankoy.
“This proves again and again that for the safety of our cities, for the protection of the normal life of Ukrainians and our children, our military must have enough long-range weapons, enough means to defeat terrorists. The world’s sanctions pressure against Russia deserves a significant increase,” he said.
Peace summit
U.S. government officials will attend a summit on Ukraine in Saudi Arabia, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller announced during a briefing on Monday, saying that he could not provide more details.
The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday that Saudi Arabia would invite Western states, Ukraine and major developing countries to the high-level talks.
Saudi Arabia’s summit is reportedly scheduled to be held in Jeddah over the weekend to discuss implementation of Zelenskyy’s peace plan to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador called for an end to the “irrational” war in Ukraine and urged the upcoming peace talks in the Middle East to include representation from both Ukraine and Russia.
Lopez Obrador said Mexico would only participate in the peace talks if both sides were present.
The Mexican president has tried to keep his country neutral in the war, though his government has backed some major U.N. resolutions against Russia. Mexico has refused to send arms to Ukraine and has not imposed sanctions against Russia.
The Kremlin said Monday it would “follow” the meeting but did not currently see conditions for peace talks with Kyiv.__VOA News
