MOSCOW, July 23: Ukrainian strikes killed three people, including a child, and wounded eight in Russia and in Moscow-annexed Crimea on Thursday, local authorities said.
In their fifth year of war, Moscow and Kyiv have escalated air strikes deep behind each other's lines, driving the civilian toll to its highest since 2022, while fighting on the front has remained at a standstill.
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On the outskirts of Voronezh, 500 kilometres (310 miles) south of Moscow, a "three-year-old boy died" in a fire that broke out at his home after a drone crashed on it, regional governor Alexander Gusev wrote on Telegram.
The boy's parents sustained "various wounds," he said, adding that a young man had also been wounded in a separate drone attack in the same area.
In Russia's Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, one man was killed and another wounded when a Ukrainian drone struck a vehicle, regional authorities said in a statement on Telegram.
In Crimea, the peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014, a Ukrainian attack killed one person and wounded four others, including two children, Moscow-installed governor Sergei Aksyonov said.
US-led talks on resolving the conflict have stalled since Washington's attention turned to the Middle East, while Russia sticks to its hardline demand that Ukraine cede territory.
