At least one civilian died and several were injured in a drone attack carried out by Ukraine against Moscow and Rostov, Russia. The Ministry of Defense reported that during the past night a total of 48 Ukrainian drones were shot down.

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“The military repelled the air attack, but unfortunately it was not without tragic consequences,” Rostov Governor Yuri Sliusar reported on Telegram, announcing the death of an elderly woman caused by the impact of a drone on a residential building.

Two other people were injured in the capital city although their lives are not in danger, according to its governor, Andrei Vorobyov. Additionally, up to 50,000 people were left without electricity in Sergiyev Posad (about 60 kilometers northeast of Moscow), after a fire broke out at an electrical substation caused by the impact of an unmanned aerial vehicle that was shot down.

Officials said Russian air defenses successfully engaged most incoming targets but acknowledged that some drones penetrated the defenses, causing “tragic consequences.” In the Rostov region, 26 of Kiev’s drones were downed; in Kursk, twelve; six over Belgorod; three in Oryol; and one in Lipetsk.

However, the attacks continued in the Udmurtia and Perm regions (Urals), which are about 1,000 kilometers away from Moscow. The governor of Udmurtia, Alexandr Brechalov, reported the downing of three drones, which led to the suspension of public transport in the town of Izhevsk. In that same town, on July 1, a private company was attacked where 33 people were injured, five of them seriously, according to medical authorities.

Airports in the Yaroslavl region, about 200 kilometers from the Russian capital, were also closed due to drones flying over the region.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian authorities report that Russian forces have unleashed a barrage of missile and drone attacks on Kiev. Although many of the videos circulating on Ukrainian social media are blurred, they show widespread fires illuminating the city’s skyline in the aftermath. So far, the Russian Defense Ministry has not confirmed these claims. Nonetheless, it regularly carries out missile and drone operations targeting Ukrainian military sites, asserting that it avoids civilian areas and calling out Kiev for placing its air defense systems within densely populated neighborhoods.

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