An Indian worker was killed and three others were wounded in a drone attack in the Moscow region, the Indian embassy in Russia said on Sunday. Embassy officials visited the site and met the injured at a hospital, but did not release the names of those affected.
The embassy expressed condolences and said it was coordinating with the company involved and local authorities to provide assistance to the workers.
Ukrainian forces are believed to have carried out the overnight strikes targeting sites in and around Moscow. Both Russia and Ukraine have escalated long-range drone and missile attacks in recent months even as diplomatic efforts to seek a negotiated end to the more than three-year conflict continue.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reportedly acknowledged his forces were behind the operation, saying Kyiv’s responses to Russia’s prolonging of the war and attacks on Ukrainian cities are justified. He described the action as a long-range strike reaching the Moscow region and said it sent a clear message to Russia about ending the war.
Russian officials said the attacks killed four people in total: a woman in Khimki, north of Moscow, and two men in the village of Pogorelki, with another man reportedly killed when a drone struck a truck in the Belgorod region near the Ukrainian border, according to local media cited by The Indian Express.