Russia, Ukraine and drone strikes
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Overnight Drone Strikes Injure At Least 11 in Sumy, Damage Energy Facilities
Russia launched a fresh wave of overnight drone strikes on the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy near the Russian border, injuring at least 11 people, including four children, local officials said Friday morning.
German newspaper Die Welt's chief reporter Ibrahim Naber and his team came under a Russian Lancet drone attack while working in eastern Ukraine on Oct. 13, injuring him and two other crew members.
Russia launched 653 drones and 52 missiles of various types in its attack, Ukraine's air force said. Of those, 592 drones and 31 missiles were shot down or otherwise suppressed, the air force said. Sixteen missiles and 63 drones impacted across 20 locations, the air force said.
Russia does not recognize the U.N. commission or the International Criminal Court, which defines crimes against humanity as a range of acts — including murder, enslavement, deportation, torture, and rape — that are “committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack.”
Pakistan has reportedly admitted to having a deal with a foreign country permitting drone strikes in Afghanistan, saying it cannot halt them due to the agreement’s binding nature. The revelation came amid high-level peace talks in Istanbul.
A third person was injured when a drone fired a missile in the southern town of Harouf, NNA said. Another Israeli strike was reported in Labouneh in the Tyre district of southern Lebanon, about 200 meters from a Lebanese army post.