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Four dead in Russia, Ukraine after exchange of drone strikes

By AFP
April 23, 2026
A rescuer works at the site of a maternity hospital which was hit during overnight Russian drone strikes, amid Russias attack on Ukraine, in Odesa, Ukraine March 28, 2026.—Reuters
A rescuer works at the site of a maternity hospital which was hit during overnight Russian drone strikes, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Odesa, Ukraine March 28, 2026.—Reuters

KYIV, Ukraine: Four people, including a child, were killed in Russia and Ukraine after the latest exchange of drone strikes between the warring countries, officials said on Wednesday.

As diplomatic talks have stalled and neither side has made a breakthrough on the front, Moscow and Kyiv have both stepped up their long-range drone attacks, firing swarms of the unmanned explosive-packed devices at each other on a nightly basis.

An overnight Ukrainian drone strike killed two people in the central Russian city of Syzran, home to one of the country´s top air force schools. “Two people -- an adult woman and a child -- have died in Syzran following an attack by an enemy drone,” regional governor Vyacheslav Fedorischev said on social media.

Photos provided by the Russian emergencies ministry showed a four-storey apartment building partly collapsed, with rescuers working in the debris.