Russia launched waves of deadly airborne attacks against eastern regions of Ukraine overnight. Kyiv responded with drone strikes across southern Russia. File photo Sergey Kozlov/EPA
May 21 (UPI) -- At least five people were killed and 50 injured in overnight Russian drone and missile strikes across Ukraine's eastern regions. Ukraine responded with retaliatory UAV attacks on Russia's Samara and Belgorod regions, killing two people and injuring several others.
A drone strike on a bus carrying agricultural workers close to the Russian border in Semenivka, in Chernihiv province, killed a man and injured two other people with a third man injured in a separate attack on a farm 30 miles away when the tractor he was operating was hit Wednesday morning.
In the Kharkiv region, one person was killed when a truck was struck by a drone near Kharkiv city and 15 people were injured in attacks elsewhere in the province, Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said in an update on Telegram.
A 94-year-old woman was killed and another woman was injured in a drone strike on Konotop in neighboring Sumy province and a 52-year-old man and 32-year-old woman were injured in separate attacks in the province.
