Six-month-old killed in Ukrainian drone strike on Moscow Region – governor
A six-month-old baby has been killed in a Ukrainian drone attack in Moscow Region, Governor Andrey Vorobyov has said, adding that three other people were pulled from under the rubble of a residential building.
In a Telegram post on Tuesday, Vorobyov said the drone came down in the town of Yegoryevsk, around 110 km southeast of Moscow. “At night, as a result of a drone crash in Yegoryevsk, a private house caught fire. People were trapped under the rubble,” he wrote. The surviving victims – two adults and one child – have been hospitalized and are receiving assistance, Vorobyov added.
The infant died on the way to the hospital, the governor said, expressing his condolences.
According to Vorobyov, the Yegoryevsk strike was part of a wider overnight assault in which air defenses repelled 60 drones across Moscow Region, mostly in the south.
The governor added that a separate drone strike damaged an administrative building in Dubna, 100 km north of the capital, while another drone hit a house in the village of Fateyevo, east of Moscow, with no casualties in either case.
The Russian Defense Ministry said air defense units intercepted 419 Ukrainian drones overnight across the nation.
Ukraine has stepped up long-range drone raids deep into Russian territory in recent months, often targeting critical infrastructure as well as residential buildings. Earlier this month, Kiev launched one of the largest drone attacks on Moscow since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict, hitting an oil refinery in the capital and injuring 17 people, including two children, across the capital region.
