(Reuters) – One person was killed after Russian forces sent dozens of attack drones over Ukraine in their latest overnight air strike, Ukrainian authorities said on Wednesday.
The Ukraine air force said that 32 of 46 Iranian-made drones launched by Russia had been shot down. Most of the rest struck near the front line, mainly in the southern Kherson region.
The governor of Ukraine’s Odesa region said that a 35-year-old man was killed by debris from a downed drone in a residential area. The interior ministry said four others, including a six-year-old child, were wounded.
There were no other immediate reports of casualties. The air force said the military had shot down drones over parts of central, southern and western Ukraine.
Russia has carried out a campaign of regular air strikes on population centres far behind the front line of its nearly two-year-old invasion of Ukraine.
Ukraine’s interior ministry also reported a separate fatality from overnight shelling of Kherson city.
(Reporting by Dan Peleschuk in Kyiv and Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by Tom Hogue and David Goodman)
