Civilians were killed on both sides of the Russian-Ukrainian border over the weekend as drone and artillery attacks intensified, local officials said.The acting governor of Russia’s Bryansk region said a Ukrainian drone crashed into a car near the border, killing two people. The Russian Defense Ministry said that Russian air defense systems intercepted 124 Ukrainian drones in multiple areas within 12 hours.One person was killed and another injured in Russian artillery and drone strikes near Nikopol in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region. In the Russian-controlled part of the Donetsk region, two people were killed in Ukrainian drone strikes on Horlivka and Makievka.In the northern region of Sumy, a 66-year-old man was killed when his house was struck by a Russian drone. In Zaporozhye, nine people, including two children, were injured in a nighttime attack that partially destroyed a residential building.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that Ukrainian forces attacked the Titan-Barikady facility in Volgograd, Russia’s main industrial complex that produces artillery and missile components.A Ukrainian drone attacked a World War II museum in the Rostov region of Russia, injuring 12 people. Ukraine’s state security service also reported a drone attack on an oil pumping station east of Moscow, which it said was critical to the capital’s fuel supply.Separately, a Ukrainian drone struck the Krasnodar region of Russia, killing one person and injuring another. An oil refinery caught fire and an electric wire and a natural gas pipeline were damaged. Russian officials said 213 Ukrainian drones were intercepted over the weekend.
