Ukraine’s drone attack kills two in Tula, targets Moscow, Russia says

(Reuters) -Two people died in the Tula region as a result of a Ukrainian drone attack that also targeted Moscow and other Russian regions, Russia’s regional official and the defence ministry said late on Sunday.

Two people have also been hospitalised following the attack on the Tula region that borders the Moscow region to its north, Tula Governor Dmitry Milyaev said on the Telegram messaging app.

The Russian defence ministry said that its air defence units destroyed 27 Ukrainian drones within a span of three hours late on Sunday, including 11 over the Tula region, one over the Moscow region and the rest over four other regions in Russia’s south and west.

(Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; editing by Diane Craft)