KYIV: Three people have died during a night of airstrikes and intense shelling across Ukraine, officials said on Sunday, while Moscow’s second-largest airport suspended flights following a foiled drone attack near the Russian capital.
Two people were killed and four more were injured following a Russian air strike in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, said the head of the local regional military administration, Oleh Syniehubov.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a guided bomb had hit a blood transfusion centre in the area’s Kupyan district late on Saturday.
“This war crime alone says everything about Russian aggression,” Zelenskyy wrote on social media. “Defeating terrorists is a matter of honour for everyone who values life.” A woman in her eighties was also killed by Ukrainian shelling in Russian-held Donetsk, the city’s Moscow-appointed mayor Alexei Kulemzin said on Sunday. Moscow’s Vnukovo airport located 15 km (nine miles) southwest of the Russian capital briefly suspended flights Sunday morning after a drone was shot down in the airspace around the city.
The drone was destroyed by air defence systems in the Podolsk region of the Moscow suburbs, the Russian defence ministry said.