Russian drone barrage kills one, wounds three in west Ukraine

A Russian drone barrage overnight killed one person and wounded three others in the western Ukrainian city of Ternopil, authorities said Monday, in Moscow’s latest aerial bombardment on Ukraine.

The warring countries have escalated cross-border drone and missile attacks in recent weeks and the Kremlin’s latest barrage came as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrived in Kyiv to reaffirm Berlin’s support for Ukraine.

“A 45-year-old man died as a result of the attack. His wife and two other residents of the building were taken to hospital,” the national police service said.

The statement added that a fire had broken out at the scene leaving some 20 apartments had damaged, and that a nearby educational facility was also damaged.

“Unpunished evil never stops. And it will not limit itself by our borders,” the Ukrainian president’s chief of staff wrote on social media in response to the attack.

The Ukrainian air force said Russia had attacked Ukraine with 110 drones, including the Iranian-designed shahed unmanned aerial vehicles from four regions of Russia.

It said Ukrainian air defence systems had downed 52 drones including over the Kyiv region, where AFP journalists heard explosions ring out during the attack.

Another 50 drones were lost and “presumably” downed by electronic defensive systems, the air force said.