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One killed in Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's Bryansk region, governor says
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Posted on April 3, 2025
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A Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's Bryansk region killed one civilian and injured another. Moscow's air defense intercepted a drone, leading to temporary airport closures.
(Reuters) -One civilian was killed and another was injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's Bryansk region, the local governor said on Friday.
As a result of the attack, the two village residents had sustained shrapnel wounds, the governor, Alexander Bogomaz, wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
"The injured were promptly taken to the district hospital. Unfortunately, one of the injured, a man, died," he said.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said earlier on Friday that Russian air defence units had brought down a drone approaching the capital.
"Air defence units of the Defence Ministry repelled an attack by a drone flying towards Moscow," Sobyanin wrote on Telegram.
"Emergency specialists are working at the site where fragments have fallen."
A representative of Rosaviatsiya, the federal transport agency, said that the capital's Vnukovo, Domodedovo and Zhukovsky airports had been ordered to temporarily close. They were reopened for departing flights several hours later.
Russian air defence units downed 107 Ukrainian drones overnight, the Defence Ministry said on Friday.
(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Leslie Adler, Lincoln Feast and Andrew Osborn)
The main topic is a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's Bryansk region resulting in civilian casualties.
One civilian was killed, another injured, and Moscow's airports were temporarily closed.
Russian air defense units intercepted drones, and the Defense Ministry reported downing 107 drones.
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