MOSCOW: Russia said on Saturday it had destroyed 47 Ukrainian drones over its southern regions overnight, mostly in the Rostov area bordering Ukraine.
Kyiv has regularly launched drones into Russia during Moscow's military offensive in Ukraine, now in its third year.
"Air defence systems on duty intercepted and destroyed over the territories of Belgorod region (one drone), Kursk region (two drones), Volgograd region (three drones) and Rostov region (41 drones)," the Russian army said on social media.
The southern Rostov region is a hub for the Russian army to plan its military operations in Ukraine.
Rostov governor Vasily Golubev said on social media that a drone attack had hit the city of Taganrog, on the Azov Sea.
He said a rescue worker was wounded but there were "no dead".
Social media channels close to the Russian army said Ukraine had targeted an aviation plant in Taganrog.
"In Taganrog, in all likelihood, the target of raid was the Beriev aviation plant," Telegram channel Rybar, with close army links, said.
The channel also alleged that another target was a military air base further into Russia in the town of Morozovsk.
Authorities in the Kursk region, which lies further north and also borders Ukraine, said a clinic had been damaged in the main city of Kursk.
Regional governor Roman Starovoyt posted a video of himself outside "polyclinic number 6 in Kursk". The top of the green building was visibly damaged.
Meanwhile, Ukraine said Saturday a Russian bomb landed near a block of flats in the southern city of Kherson overnight wounding a child, while a teenaged boy died in shelling elsewhere.
Russia's attack has dragged on for more than two years, with fierce fighting in the east and regular attacks away from the frontline.
"Last night, the Russian army struck the city with a bomb. The shell landed near a five-storey building," Kherson's administration said on social media.
It published a video of a destroyed building, with a large crater outside it.
"A seven-year-old boy who suffered from the shelling is under medical supervision," authorities said, adding that "the child's life is not in danger."
Officials in the central Dnipropetrovsk region said Russian shelling killed a teenager in the village of Chervonogrygorivka on the Dnipro river.
"A 16-year-old boy was killed. Another 22-year-old is in hospital," Sergiy Lysak, the region's head, said.
Kyiv's air force said earlier it had downed 12 out of 15 drones launched by Russia over the eastern Donetsk region and central Dnipropetrovsk and Poltava regions. — AFP
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