A Russian missile strike in the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih (center) overnight killed a 12-year-old boy and two elderly women, aged 74 and 79, regional governor Serhii Lysak announced today.

According to the official, the strike was launched “in the middle of the night, while the city was sleeping.”

Three other people were injured and taken to hospital, but their lives are not threatened.

Besides, according to the regional governor Lisak, two buildings collapsed and another 20 were damaged.

Krivi Rih, a city where steel mills are located, is some 64 kilometers from the nearest sector under Russian occupation. It is often bombed, mostly from the air.

Russia says it has destroyed more than 100 Ukrainian drones

The Russian Ministry of Defense, for its part, announced thatover 100 Ukrainians were shot down unmanned aerial vehicles over Russian territory overnight, in raids that reportedly caused limited damage but no casualties.

“101 Ukrainian drones (…) were intercepted and destroyed by air defense systems in service,” the ministry said via Telegram.

43 of them were destroyed in the airspace of the Bryansk region (west), which neighbors Ukraine. Its self-administration assured that according to the first information, there are no victims or damage.

Another 18 were destroyed in Krasnodar (southwest), a region that borders Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014.

According to its regional governor, Benjamin Kantratiev, the fall of drone debris caused a “fire, which spread to explosives” in the Tikharetsky district. Residents were quickly evacuated, however no damage was reported, he added via Telegram.

Recently, Moscow has been announcing the downing of dozens of Ukrainian drones almost every day.