In today's Russian missile attack on the city of Chernigov in the north of Ukraine, at least 13 residents were killed, and buildings and municipal infrastructure were damaged, local officials reported, Reuters reports.
Beta Agency reported earlier that Mayor Oleksandr Lomako said that in the explosion of three Russian rockets that hit the eighth floor of a residential building in the center of Chernihiv today, at least 11 people were killed and 22 were wounded.
Chernihiv is located near Ukraine's triple border with Russia and Belarus, about 150 kilometers from the capital city of Kiev.
On the other hand, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that a Ukrainian drone was shot down over the region of Mordovia, approximately 350 kilometers east of Moscow. It is 700 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
About an hour before that attack in Mordovia, Russia's civil aviation authority suspended flights at airports in two major cities, Nizhny Novgorod and Tatarstan's Kazan, for "security reasons."
The Ministry's announcement states that another Ukrainian drone was shot down, this time in the region of Tatarstan, which is located about 1.200 kilometers east of the border.
Also, unconfirmed reports say that a Ukrainian missile hit an airport in occupied Crimea. Neither Russian nor Ukrainian officials confirmed the strike, but local authorities temporarily closed the road on which the airport is located.
Russia's Tass news agency quoted a local mayor as saying that windows at a mosque and a private home in the region were shattered in the blast.
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