War in Ukraine: Russian night strikes kill at least three people

These bombings come as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky proposed a direct meeting with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. At least four people were killed on Friday June 5 in a Russian strike on a company manufacturing dairy products for children near kyiv, regional authorities announced. According to the kyiv prosecutor’s office, other victims may be found under the rubble.

According to authorities’ reports, deadly Russian strikes occurred as early as Thursday evening in the regions of Zaporizhia, in the east of the country, where a woman was killed by a drone attack, as well as in Kherson, in the South, where the victim was a man from 75 years old. In the Dnipropetrovsk region, Russian drone and artillery attacks then killed a woman in the town of Pavlograd, according to the head of the regional military administration Olexandre Ganja.

The Ukrainian army reported a total of two missiles and 216 long-range drones fired by Russia during the night, specifying that it had shot down 198 drones.

The Russian ministry, for its part, declared that it had shot down 123 Ukrainian drones during the night from Thursday to Friday, including over the Moscow region, but not in that of Saint Petersburg, where Vladimir Putin is due to go on Friday, on the occasion of the International Economic Forum which is taking place in the north-western metropolis. of Russia. On Wednesday, at the opening of this meeting bringing together Russian and foreign investors and officials, Ukrainian drones struck an oil installation and a military site nearby.