Moscow: A Ukrainian drone attack killed a mother and her toddler in western Russia on Wednesday, local officials said, in a major overnight barrage that set an oil refinery ablaze and targeted a nuclear facility. The Ukrainian attack over swathes of western Russia is just the latest in a series of escalating Russian and Ukrainian aerial strikes, targeting energy and military facilities over the nearly three-year war. The assaults have escalated since Donald Trump won last year’s US presidential election, with the Republican seeking a swift end to the fighting. “The most terrible thing happened as a result of a drone attack on a residential house — a two-year-old child and his mother were killed,” Vyacheslav Gladkov, the governor of Russia’s Belgorod border region said. Another child and his father were also injured in the strike, he wrote on social media. — AFP
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