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Ukraine's drone strike near Moscow damages power infrastructure, injuring one. Sergiyev Posad, a key religious site, is affected.
(Reuters) -Ukraine launched a drone attack on the Sergiyev Posad district near Moscow early on Friday, injuring one person and damaging power infrastructure, the head of the district said.
"I ask everyone to remain calm, not to approach the windows, not to photograph the work of the air defence," Oksana Yerokhanova wrote in a post on the Telegram messaging app.
She said that at least four explosions were recorded throughout the district - some 75 km (47 miles) from the Kremlin - and that a power substation was damaged, leaving parts of the district without electricity.
The district's administrative centre, the town of Sergiyev Posad, is considered the religious centre of the Moscow Region and a spiritual heart of Russia's Orthodox Church. The city's monastery, the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius that was founded in the 14th century, is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
In the southern Russian region of Rostov a woman was killed as a result of Ukraine's drone attack, which damaged several apartment buildings and forced the evacuation of scores of people from their homes, the acting governor of the region said on Friday.
The scale of the attack on Russia was not immediately known. There was no comment from Ukraine.
Kyiv says that its attacks inside Russia are aimed at destroying infrastructure key to Moscow's war efforts and are in response to continuous Russian strikes on Ukraine.
Both sides deny targeting civilians in the war that Russia launched with a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. But thousands of civilians have died in the conflict, the vast majority of them Ukrainian.
(Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Warsaw; Editing by Jamie Freed and Kim Coghill)
Ukraine launched a drone attack on the Sergiyev Posad district near Moscow, injuring one person and damaging power infrastructure.
Sergiyev Posad is approximately 75 km (47 miles) from the Kremlin.
Oksana Yerokhanova urged residents to remain calm and avoid approaching windows or photographing the air defense operations.
Kyiv claims its attacks inside Russia aim to destroy infrastructure vital to Moscow's war efforts in response to ongoing Russian strikes on Ukraine.
In the Rostov region, a woman was killed due to the drone attack, which also damaged several apartment buildings and led to evacuations.
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