Ukraine said on Tuesday it hit one of Russia’s largest satellite communication centers for the second time in just over a week, as Kyiv ramps up long-range drone attacks to pressure the Kremlin to end its four-year-old war.
The Dubna Satellite Communications Centre to the north of Moscow, some 500 km (310 miles) from the Ukrainian border, is used for intelligence gathering and the coordination of Russia’s armed forces fighting in Ukraine, President Volodymr Zelensky said.
Russia hasn’t confirmed the Dubna communication center was struck, but the governor of the Moscow region Andrey Vorobyov said a drone had hit an “administrative building” in the town with no reported casualties.
Vorobyov also said a six-month-old baby died on Tuesday after a drone crashed into a home in the Moscow region, trapping people under rubble. Rescue workers extracted two adults and two children, but the infant died on the way to hospital, Vorobyov said on his Telegram channel.
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said Russian air defenses shot down more than 60 drones after multiple waves of drones were launched towards the Russian capital starting Monday night. Overall, the Russian Ministry of Defense claimed to have intercepted or destroyed 419 drones.
