(Reuters) -A woman sustained a leg injury from Ukraine’s overnight drone attack on Voronezh that also resulted in several homes and utility buildings catching fire from falling drone debris, the governor of the southern Russian region said on Sunday.
Air defence units destroyed about 15 Ukrainian drones over the region, the governor of Voronezh, Alexander Gusev, wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
“The threat of further drone attacks remains,” Gusev said in the post early on Sunday.
Reuters could not independently verify Gusev’s report. There was no immediate comment from Ukraine.
Both sides deny targeting civilians in their strike in the war that Russia launched with a full-scale invasion on Ukraine in February 2022.
Kyiv says that its attacks inside Russia are aimed at destroying infrastructure key to Moscow’s war efforts and are in response to Russia’s relentless strikes on Ukraine.
The Russian defence ministry said that its units destroyed 41 drones just before midnight on Saturday over Russian regions bordering Ukraine and over the waters of the Black Sea.
(Reporting by Lidia Kelly in MelbourneEditing by Marguerita Choy)
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