 Ukrainian officials say six people were killed by overnight missile strikes thought to have been in retaliation for drone attacks against a Russian tanker in the Black Sea. The Kremlin's retribution took the form of a barrage of missile strikes on Saturday night, with more than 70 air assault weapons deployed against targets in western Ukraine. Kyiv's Air Force initially said it had shot down 27 Iranian-made Shahed drones and 30 of 40 missiles, and have since confirmed at least six deaths as a result of the ten missiles that got through. On Friday, Ukrainian drones loaded with more than 450 kilograms of explosives struck a Russian fuel vessel in the Black Sea just hours after similar strikes against the Russian port of Novorssiysk. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said following those attacks: 'There can be no justification for such barbaric actions, they will not go unanswered and their authors and perpetrators will inevitably be punished.' Serhiy Tyurin, deputy head of Ukraine's Khmelnytsky region military administration in Western Ukraine, said the retaliation attacks came in three waves which damaged several buildings and caused a warehouse fire. The Ukrainian drone strike against the Russian tanker was the second such attack on Friday, with the first targeting a major Russian port (Picture: AP) He added their intended target may have been an airfield in the city of Starokostyantyniv. Two of the fatalities occurred in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, where a further four people were injured, with another two deaths in Donetsk. A guided bomb is also said to have hit a blood transfusion centre in Kharkiv earlier in the day, while shelling in the village of Podoly killed one 58-year-old woman and injured one 66-year-old man. Kremlin-appointed officials in Donetsk claim Ukrainian shelling k){kind=link}
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Ukrainian officials say six people were killed by overnight missile strikes thought to have been in retaliation for drone attacks against a Russian tanker in the Black Sea.
The Kremlin’s retribution took the form of a barrage of missile strikes on Saturday night, with more than 70 air assault weapons deployed against targets in western Ukraine.
Kyiv’s Air Force initially said it had shot down 27 Iranian-made Shahed drones and 30 of 40 missiles, and have since confirmed at least six deaths as a result of the ten missiles that got through.
On Friday, Ukrainian drones loaded with more than 450 kilograms of explosives struck a Russian fuel vessel in the Black Sea just hours after similar strikes against the Russian port of Novorssiysk.