Russia launched 90 drones at Ukraine between late Thursday and early Friday, extending drone warfare a day after Ukraine carried out its biggest-ever drone attack on Moscow. Russian strikes killed three people in Ukraine, including an eight-year-old girl in Pavlohrad in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region.
Oleksandr Ganzha said on Friday: "An eight-year-old girl was killed. Another person was wounded. These are the consequences of this morning’s enemy attack on Pavlohrad." Another person was wounded in Pavlohrad, separate Russian attacks in Ukraine's southern Odesa region killed one person, and strikes on Kramatorsk killed one other person.
Pavlohrad and Dnipropetrovsk region
Andrei Vorobyov said the eight-year-old girl killed in the Moscow region had been at home with her grandmother, who was unharmed. Ukraine said its attack on Moscow set fire to a large oil refinery in southeast Moscow for the second time in three days, and the Kremlin acknowledged the Ukrainian strikes while saying Moscow's air defences were performing well and Moscow's own strikes on Ukraine were impressive.
Russian drone attacks late on Thursday killed one person and wounded five others on civilian ships in the Black Sea. Ukraine's military also said on Friday that it struck railway bridges in Russian-held Crimea.
Dmitry Peskov and Moscow
Dmitry Peskov said on Friday: "Indeed, drone attacks continue. Appropriate measures are being taken to mitigate the consequences." He also said, "These strikes [on Ukraine] will continue," according to Russian news agencies. That leaves a straightforward near-term reality for civilians in Pavlohrad, Odesa region, Kramatorsk, and the Black Sea: the exchange of attacks is still moving in both directions, and Russia's latest strike came only hours after Ukraine's record attack on Moscow.
