KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia fired missiles into western Ukraine that killed an 8-year-old boy, local officials said, and drones that Russian officials attributed to the Ukrainian military were targeted at Moscow by a third party. day in a row But it was reported that it did not cause much damage.
Also on Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the dismissal of all heads of regional recruitment centers as part of his action. crackdown on corruption Since the outbreak of Russia guerra In Ukraine for more than 17 months.
The missile that killed the boy struck a house in the Ivano-Frankivsk region of western Ukraine, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) from polish borderAccording to the General Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine.
But Ukrainian air defenses thwarted Russia’s daytime attack on kyiv, the Ukrainian capital. Local authorities said debris from the intercepted missiles fell on residential areas of the city, including the buildings of a children’s hospital, causing no casualties.
Debris falling from missiles and drones in the past has killed people on the ground and damaged buildings in kyiv.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said a drone crashed in western Moscow after it was stopped by Russian air defense systems. He said no one was hurt.
Authorities said the drone came down on the Karamyshevskaya embankment, about 5 kilometers (3 miles) from The business district of Moscow, which was hit twice in previous drone incidents.
Reports of drones in the area disrupted flights at two Russian airports. Later, flights resumed at the Vnukovo airport, one of the busiest in Moscow, and at the Kaluga airport, southwest of the city. He was third day in a row Vnukovo airport has suspended flights due to drone strikes.
In kyiv, Zelensky announced the dismissal of the heads of recruitment centers in the Ukrainian regions. The move came after Ukrainian security services provided details of 112 criminal cases against conscription board officials suspected of taking bribes and engaging in corrupt practices.
Zelensky said in a Telegram post that jobs should go to veterans, including the wounded.
Zelensky has previously fired top officials suspected of corruption. that he has send a signal a western allies Giving Kiev tens of billions of dollars in serious military aid to crack down on corruption, which has long plagued the country’s military.
A long-standing case of corruption in the Ukrainian recruitment system came to light last June when a media investigation into Odessa Regional Project Commissioner Evgen Borisov was published, sparking a scandal.
The investigation reported multi-million dollar real estate and luxury cars allegedly owned by members of the Borisov family in Spain. Borisov denied wrongdoing and said he had nothing to do with what the family bought from him.
Following this report, the Ukrainian State Bureau of Investigation and its Security Service detained dozens of recruiting board employees suspected of bribery and corruption.
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Associated Press writer Emma Burrows in London contributed to this report.
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2023-08-12 08:36:39
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