2 killed, 5 injured in Russia missile strike

According to CNN, quoting a senior Ukrainian official, at least two people were killed and five others were injured after Russia launched a missile strike on a Ukrainian hamlet on Monday.

The strike, according to Andrii Yermak, head of the Ukrainian President’s office, caused an explosion at an oil mill in the town of Hoholeve. Search activities and rubble disposal are still underway, according to local officials.

Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters that its Air Defense Troops had shot down an aircraft-type drone used by Kyiv to strike Russian territory in the Moscow Region, according to TASS News Agency.

“On August 28, at about 4:30 am Moscow time, the Air Defense Troops foiled another attempt of the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack on Russian territory with an aircraft-type drone. It was destroyed in the air over the territory of the Lyubertsy district of the Moscow Region,” the ministry said.

While Moscow’s Mayor Sergey Sobyanin on his Telegram channel wrote, “Today the Air Defense Troops destroyed a drone flying towards Moscow in the Lyubertsy area. For the time being, there are no casualties and no destruction. Emergency services are working at the scene of the incident.”

Meanwhile, according to CNN, Ukrainian officials stated on Monday that Russia launched strikes across Ukraine overnight, killing at least one person and damaged homes and infrastructure.

According to Oleksandr Prokudin, the chief of the southern region’s military administration, at least one person was killed and two others were injured in Kherson after Russian soldiers shelled residential areas.

“The enemy carried out 69 shellings over the past 24 hours, launching 395 shells from mortars, artillery, tanks, Grad MLRS, UAVs, and aircraft,” Prokudin said on Telegram Monday.