Both Russia and Ukraine reported attacks during the early hours of this Saturday, which left three dead on the Russian side and two on the Ukrainian side. Additionally, a journalist from a Russian media outlet was reported dead in Ukraine.
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Ukraine attacked eight western regions of Russia with drones, during the night of April 20, with the aim of causing damage to the Russian energy infrastructure, which supplies its military industry facilities. Three civilians died.
Sources from Ukraine's security services reported the events to the state agency Ukrinform: “At least three electrical substations were affected, as well as a fuel storage base, where fires broke out.”
After the attacks – according to the state agency – there were problems with electricity and water supply in some areas.
For his part, the The Russian Army assured that its anti-aircraft defenses shot down around fifty Ukrainian drones.
Most of the unmanned aircraft were directed at the Belgorod border region, which has been a common target since the beginning of this year; but they also included the Moscow area.
Vasili Anokhin, governor of the Smolensk region (Russia), said that a Ukrainian drone attacked a fuel tank until it set on fire, which has been attended to by firefighters, and another attempted attack was repelled.
Almost simultaneously with the attacks against Russia, Ukraine received seven missiles on its territory and the air forces intercepted two missiles and three drones, as reported by Mikola Oleschuk, commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, who confirmed that two people in the northeast of the country died after being hit by missiles.
Russian journalist dies
While reporting in the Ukrainian region of Zaporizhia, partially occupied by the Russian Army, The war correspondent of the Russian channel Izvestia, Semyon Yeremin, lost his life. as reported by the channel on its website.
“He died as a result of injuries received after the launch of a drone. The journalist was carrying out his professional duties,” the statement said.
On the Wednesday before the incident, Izvestia received the latest report from Yeremin, who had been covering the fighting in Ukraine since the start of the war in February 2022, including operations in the Donetsk region.
In this regard, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated that the death of the journalist is a direct attack against his country and assured that he will not seek any truce or possible peace negotiations with Ukraine in the future.
With EFE, Reuters and local media
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