An Indian worker was killed and three others were injured in a drone attack in the Moscow region, the Indian embassy said on Sunday. The attack is believed to have been carried out by Ukrainian forces.
“One Indian worker has lost his life and three others have been injured in a drone attack in [the] Moscow region earlier today. Embassy officials have visited the location and met the injured workers in the hospital,” the Indian Embassy in Russia said on ‘X’.
“The Embassy condoles the loss of life and is working with the company management and local authorities to provide necessary assistance to the workers,” it said, even though it did not disclose the identities of the deceased or the injured persons.
Ukraine carried out overnight attacks targeting installations in Moscow. Russia and Ukraine have stepped up long-range drone and missile attacks in recent months, even as diplomatic efforts to find a negotiated settlement to the more than three-year-old conflict have continued.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reportedly confirmed that it was his forces behind the attack and that it was a tit-for-tat response. “Our responses to Russia’s prolongation of the war and attacks on our cities and communities are entirely justified. This time, Ukrainian long-distance sanctions have reached the Moscow region, and we are clearly telling the Russians: their state must end its war,” Zelenskyy said.
As per the Russian authorities, the said attack by Kyiv killed four people, including a woman in Khimki near Moscow and two men in the village of Pogorelki, north of the capital. Another man died after a drone struck a truck in the Belgorod region bordering Ukraine, The Indian Express quoted local media reports as saying.
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