Six people were killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine in the past 24 hours, local officials reported Sunday.
Two people were killed and three others injured in the Kherson region after more than 100 shells bombarded the area over the weekend, local governor Oleksandr Prokudin wrote on social media.
Two guided bombs then hit key infrastructure in the city of Kherson, causing a partial power outage and interruption of the region’s water supply, said the head of the city’s military administration, Roman Mrochko .
Local officials said two other people were killed in the Donetsk region and a 57-year-old man and a 54-year-old woman were killed in an airstrike that destroyed their home in the Kharkiv region.
Separately, the Russian Defense Ministry announced on Sunday that Ukraine had launched 27 drones during a nighttime attack against western Russia.
Authorities said 18 drones were shot down over the Kursk region, leading to speculation in the Russian press that the attack may have targeted the nearby Khalino military airfield.
Images posted on social media show burning debris just 1.5 kilometers from the air base, which was previously attacked by Ukrainian forces at the end of September.
Kursk Governor Roman Starovoit said on social media that debris had fallen in the region’s capital and the neighboring village of Zorino. No casualties have been reported.
Authorities also said two other drones were shot down over Russia’s Belgorod region, but did not confirm the fate of the other seven drones. Ukrainian media later said that Kiev forces had carried out a successful attack on the Russian Krasnaya Yaruga electricity substation near the Ukrainian border.
The reports cited an anonymous source within Ukraine’s security services and included video that appeared to show an airstrike against an unidentified target.
The Associated Press was unable to independently verify this information.
Moscow also announced on Sunday that it had intercepted a Global Hawk drone near the Russian border in the Black Sea.
A Su-27 fighter was sent to intercept the drone, which turned away and ultimately did not enter Russian airspace, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement posted on social media.