Seven killed, 40 injured in drone attack at Gelendzhik resort, Russia says
Russian officials claim Ukrainian drone deliberately targeted civilians at Black Sea holiday town
L'essentiel
- Russian authorities say a Ukrainian drone deliberately struck a busy beach near Gelendzhik, killing seven people including three children and injuring 40.
- Ukraine has not commented.
Résumé généré par IA
Pourquoi c'est important
Russian authorities reported a Ukrainian drone strike on a beach near Gelendzhik, causing civilian casualties.
Russia said on Monday that seven people, including three children, had been killed and 40 injured at its Black Sea holiday resort of Gelendzhik in what it said was a deliberate Ukrainian drone attack on civilians.
There was no immediate comment from Ukraine, which like Russia, says it does not deliberately target civilians in the full-scale war which Moscow launched in 2022.
Social media videos, verified by Reuters, showed what appears to be a drone slamming into a busy beach area near the town of Gelendzhik, accompanied by a loud explosion.
Veniamin Kondratyev, the governor of Russia’s southern Krasnodar region where Gelendzhik is located, called what had happened a tragedy.
“What happened today was a deliberate attack by the Kyiv regime on the civilian population, which has no connection whatsoever to military infrastructure,” Veniamin Kondratyev, the governor of Russia’s southern Krasnodar region which includes the resort, said in a statement on Telegram.
In a separate earlier statement, Kondratyev had spoken of falling drone fragments, a phrase that usually suggests that Russian air defences have brought down a Ukrainian drone. It was not clear in this case if Russia had used electronic jamming or other air defence methods to try to change the course of the drone before it slammed into the beach.
Questions ouvertes
- Did Ukraine actually launch the drone?
- What was the drone's origin and route?
