A 70-year-old woman waskilled and 2 others were wounded in aUkrainian drone strike in the central Lipetsk region early Thursday, with authorities in Kyiv stating they targeted a Russian military battery manufacturing plant.Lipetsk area Governor Igor Artamonovsaid the woman died and the others were wounded from falling particles, not far from the regional capital.In the close-by city of Yelets, hesaid workers were evacuated from a business after a falling drone triggered a fire in the parking lot.
No one was hurt there.Andriy Kovalenko, the head of Ukraines Center for Countering Disinformation, claimed the target of the drone attack in Yelets was the Energia battery manufacturing plant.
Energia presumably produces batteries for Russian drones and missiles, including the Iskander ballistic rocket system.The independent Telegram news channel Astra shared images and videos of the attacks aftermath, revealing black smoke near what was stated to be the plant.Energia is under U.S., EU and other Westernsanctions.Yelets and Energia were formerly stated to betargeted in at leastthree Ukrainian drone strikes in May.Russias Defense Ministrysaid its air defense systems had shot down 69 Ukrainian drones over four areas and annexed Crimea overnight.
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