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Airstrikes kill 3 in Ukraine as Moscow shuts airport

Updated on: 07 August,2023 07:49 AM IST  |  Kyiv
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that a guided bomb had hit a blood transfusion center in the area’s Kupyan district late on August 5

Airstrikes kill 3 in Ukraine as Moscow shuts airport

Steeplejacks wave a flag after installing the Ukrainian official coat of arms on the Motherland Monument in Kyiv. Pic/AP

Three people have died during a night of air strikes and intense shelling across Ukraine, officials said Sunday, while Moscow’s second-largest airport briefly suspended flights following a foiled drone attack near the Russian capital


Two people were killed and four more were injured following a Russian air strike in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, said the head of the local regional military administration, Oleh Syniehubov.


Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that a guided bomb had hit a blood transfusion center in the area’s Kupyan district late on August 5.


A woman in her eighties was also killed by Ukrainian shelling in Russian-held Donetsk, the city’s Moscow-appointed mayor Alexei Kulemzin said Sunday. Moscow’s Vnukovo airport located 15 km southwest of the Russian capital briefly suspended flights Sunday morning after a drone was shot down in the airspace around the city.

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