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Russian forces attack Ukraine with drones overnight, killing 2

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Russian forces attack Ukraine with drones overnight, killing 2
A car destroyed by the remains of a Shahed drone launched by Russian troops at Dnipropetrovsk Oblast overnight on July 7, 2023. (Governor Serhii Lysak/Telegram)

Russian troops launched 18 Shahed-136/131 drones at Ukraine overnight on July 7, the Air Force reported. The Ukrainian military shot down 12 drones in the country's east and south.

Six of them were destroyed over Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, according to Serhii Lysak, the regional governor. Drone debris fell on a highway, killing two men in a moving car, Lysak said on Telegram.

Another drone hit an enterprise in the Kryvyi Rih district, causing a fire over an area 100 square meters in size, the governor added. There were no casualties.

According to the Air Force, Russian forces launched the drones from Primorsko-Akhtarsk, a Russian town on the Black Sea coast in Krasnodar Krai.

Russia has used Shahed-type kamikaze drones, produced and supplied by Iran, to attack Ukraine since last fall, killing dozens of civilians and heavily damaging the country's energy system.

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Dinara Khalilova is a freelance Ukraine-based journalist and editor. She previously worked as a reporter and a news editor at the Kyiv Independent. In the early weeks of Russia's full-scale invasion, she worked as a fixer and local producer for Sky News' team in Ukraine. Dinara holds a BA in journalism from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and a Master's degree in media and communication from Bournemouth University in the U.K.

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