Three people were killed and two others injured Tuesday evening, August 22, in Russian shelling of two villages near Lyman, in eastern Ukraine, announced the head of the military administration of the Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko.
Russian forces “hit the villages of Lyman community tonight: three people were killed and one injured in Torske, another civilian was injured in Zakitne,” Pavlo Kyrylenko wrote on Telegram.
“According to preliminary data, the invaders attacked the villages with artillery,” the Donetsk regional prosecutor’s office said on its Facebook page. The first attack took place against Torske at 6:50 p.m. (3:50 p.m. in Paris) and that against the village of Zakitne half an hour later.
Those killed in Torske are two women and a man, aged 63 to 88, who were sitting on a bench at the time of the strike, the prosecutor’s office added, and one person in the same village suffered chest injuries. , shoulder and hip. According to the same source, a 26-year-old man suffered a fractured skull and a concussion in the village of Zakitne.
In Russia, the Kremlin’s air defense shot down two drones in Moscow and its region, targeted by a sixth consecutive day of attacks, the mayor of the capital said early Wednesday.
“Last night, the air defense shot down a drone in the Mozhaysky district of the Moscow region. The second drone hit a building under construction in [Moscow] City,” Sergei Sobyanin said on Telegram. According to initial information, the attack did not cause any casualties.
Russian territory is now targeted almost daily by drones. Early Tuesday, two devices were shot down over the Moscow region, including in Krasnogorsk, northwest of the capital, where the windows of a building were smashed, according to an AFP photographer at the scene. . During the summer, aircraft were destroyed over Moscow’s business district, and in May two drones were shot down near the Kremlin.
