Russia and Ukraine trade drone attacks with 5 people killed in each country
Russia and Ukraine traded accusations Tuesday that each side's attacks caused civilian deaths, with officials in the Moscow region saying five people were killed there while authorities in Ukraine said a similar number, including two children, died at various sites across the country. Russia has relentlessly pounded civilian areas of Ukraine, even though Moscow insists its forces target only military facilities. Since the Kremlin launched its full-scale invasion over four years ago, Ukraine has developed long-range drones that can strike deep inside Russia. In the past year, its forces have battered oil facilities, major storage depots and other key infrastructure. More than 16,000 civilians have been killed in Ukraine since the war began, the United Nations said last month in its most recent casualty report, with the vast majority occurring in areas under the Ukrainian government's control.
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The U.N. children's agency on Tuesday urged both countries to uphold international humanitarian law requiring the protection of children, citing recent deaths in Russia's Belgorod and Krasnodar regions, as well as in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk and Sumy regions. "Attacks that kill and injure children must stop," UNICEF said in a statement. Russia and Ukraine trade drone attacks with 5 people killed in each country.
