One person killed in Ukrainian drone attack on Russian apartment building, governor says


MOSCOW, June ⁠14 (Reuters) - One person ⁠was killed and ‌nine more were injured on Sunday after Ukrainian ​drones hit an ⁠apartment building ⁠in the Russian city of ⁠Oryol, ‌south of Moscow, the ⁠regional governor said.

Photographs published ​by ‌Oryol Regional Governor Andrei ⁠Klychkov ​showed blown-out and blackened windows of ⁠several stories of a ​high-rise apartment building in the city of ⁠some 300,000.

Klychkov said the situation was under the control of ​emergency services ⁠and law enforcement, ​and cleanup ‌operations were ongoing.

(Reporting ​by Lucy Papachristou;Editing by Elaine Hardcastle)

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