Overnight airstrikes kill three in Ukraine as Moscow airport halts flights after foiled drone attack

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Overnight airstrikes in Ukraine resulted in three fatalities, as the conflict escalated with intense shelling. A foiled drone attack near Moscow led to the suspension of flights at Moscow’s second-largest airport for a brief period.

In the Kharkiv region of Ukraine, a Russian air strike claimed two lives and left four others injured. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the incident, calling it a war crime and a clear indication of Russian aggression.

In a separate incident, a woman in her eighties lost her life due to Ukrainian shelling in the Russian-held Donetsk, according to the city’s Moscow-appointed mayor Alexei Kulemzin.

The attempted drone attack near Moscow resulted in the drone being shot down by Russian air defense systems in the Podolsk region of the Moscow suburbs. Ukrainian authorities did not confirm whether they were responsible for the attack.

The conflict continued with heavy clashes across Ukraine, and the Ukrainian air force reported that Russian forces had launched numerous attack drones and air and sea missiles overnight. This included cruise missiles launched from aircraft over the Caspian Sea and Iranian-made Shahed-136/131 strike UAVs.

Several buildings were damaged in Ukraine’s Khmelnytsky and Kupyan regions, and fires were ignited as a result of the missile strikes.

In the Russian-held city of Donetsk, Ukrainian shelling caused damage to the main building of the M. Tugan-Baranovsky University of Economics and Trade, leading to a roof collapse, but fortunately, there were no casualties reported, according to Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry.

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• “Three people have died during a night of air strikes and intense shelling across Ukraine, officials said Sunday” (source: CNN)
• “Two people were killed and four more were injured following a Russian air strike in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region” (source: Reuters)
• “Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that a guided bomb had hit a blood transfusion center in the area’s Kupyan district” (source: Kyiv Independent)
• “A woman in her eighties was also killed by Ukrainian shelling in Russian-held Donetsk, the city’s Moscow-appointed mayor Alexei Kulemzin said” (source: The Guardian)
• “Moscow’s Vnukovo airport located 15 kilometers (nine miles) southwest of the Russian capital briefly suspended flights Sunday morning after a drone was shot down in the airspace around the city” (source: Reuters)
• “The drone was destroyed by air defense systems in the Podolsk region of the Moscow suburbs, the Russian defense ministry said” (source: France 24)
• “The Ukrainian air force reported Sunday that Russian forces had launched 70 attack drones and air and sea missiles overnight” (source: The Jerusalem Post)
• “Serhiy Tyurin, deputy head of Ukraine’s Khmelnytsky region military administration, said Sunday that Russian missiles had damaged several buildings in the area, injuring one and sparking a fire in a warehouse” (source: Ukrinform)
• “In the Russian-held city of Donetsk, Ukrainian shelling also set alight the main building of the M. Tugan-Baranovsky University of Economics and Trade” (source: Business Standard)
• “Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry said that the blaze caused the building’s roof to collapse, but that there were no casualties” (source: Bloomberg)