Casualties reported: Russian forces attack four border communities in Chernihiv region with drones

Casualties reported: Russian forces attack four border communities in Chernihiv region with drones

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Over the past 24 hours, Russian forces attacked four border communities in the Chernihiv region with FPV drones, causing extensive damage and resulting in casualties.

According to Ukrinform, Viacheslav Chaus, head of the Chernihiv Regional Military Administration, reported this on Telegram.

“Over the past 24 hours, the Russians shelled settlements in the border areas of the Chernihiv region. Most of the attacks involved the use of FPV drones,” Chaus reported.

He noted that in the evening in Semenivka, one of the FPV drones struck a five-story residential building, setting a balcony on fire. Rescue workers extinguished the fire. As a result of other attacks in the city, a passenger car was destroyed, and a store’s roof was damaged.

In the villages of the Semenivka community, fires broke out in a house and dry grass following strikes by FPV drones.

In the morning, in the Snovsk community, a Gerbera UAV struck the premises of a local enterprise.

There were also drone strikes in the villages of the Mena and Horodnia communities, resulting in damage to a house and a farm building there.

In Chernihiv on the afternoon of April 2, two people were reported killed and three wounded as a result of an explosion. Law enforcement officials are investigating the circumstances.

Read also: War update: 230 clashes on front lines in past 24 hours

The head of the Chernihiv Regional Military Administration specified that, in total, over the past 24 hours, Russian troops carried out 52 strikes on the region, with 65 explosions recorded.

Ukrinform reported that on the night of April 1, Russian troops attacked two villages in the Novhorod-Siverskyi community in the Chernihiv region with combat drones, destroying a house and an administrative building.

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