Ukrainian drone attack forces hundreds to evacuate homes in Russian city

The governor of the acting said on Tuesday that more than 300 people were released from their apartments overnight after the Ukrainian drone attack on the capital of the Rostov region.

The Russian Defense Ministry said the air defense units destroyed 13 Ukrainian drones in the Rostov region overnight. He didn’t say how many drones were detected.

Yuri Slyusar, a player of the Rostov region, said, “In one of the apartments, a shell was discovered.” He said. “As a precaution, 320 residents of the building are evacuated.”

The attack damaged several apartment buildings in Rostov-on-Don. Three people, including one child, were slightly injured.

Rostov-on-Don Mayor Alexandr Skryabin, while taking the shell of bomb throwing experts, residents moved to a school, he said.

Reuters could not confirm the reports independently. There was no immediately from Kiev. Both sides refuse to target civilians in their strikes during the war in 2022 with a full -scale invasion in Ukraine.

(Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by Christian Schmollinger and Stephen Coates)