Russia claims Ukraine's drone attacks killed 20 last week

MOSCOW

Russia claimed on Tuesday that 20 civilians, including a child, were killed last week in Ukraine's drone attacks.

Additionally, 85 people, seven of them minors, sustained injuries, Foreign Ministry's Special Envoy Rodion Miroshnik told state news agency Tass.

Miroshnik highlighted that Ukrainian troops intentionally targeted journalists last week. A film crew from the media outlet Rossiya Segodnya came under fire in Zaporizhzhia Oblast while reporting, leading to the fatality of journalist Ivan Zuyev and severe injury to his colleague Yuri Voytkevich.

Separately, the Russian Defense Ministry revealed that its air defenses intercepted and neutralized 55 Ukrainian drones operating above multiple Russian regions overnight.

In Rostov-on-Don, a local resident was injured when a Ukrainian drone crashed nearby. An apartment building in Bataisk was damaged following a drone attack. In Bryansk region, a teenager was hurt after being struck by debris from a Ukrainian military drone, the ministry said.