Russian soldiers surrender after a failed raid on a chemical plant

Ukrainian artillerymen took up positions on the front line near the town of Volchansk Photo: REUTERS/Vyacheslav Ratinsky The war-torn town of Selidovo near the front line in Donetsk Photo: Julian Simmonds for The Telegraph

Oleg, a 57-year-old resident, said he heard a strange noise at about 9pm on Thursday.< /p>

He thought that several helicopters were flying overhead until he saw an explosion.

Lyudmila, still in shock, assessed the damage caused to her apartment, where the windows were broken by the explosion.

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“Everything was demolished,” said a 68-year-old woman with bruises on her face from the explosion.

Kyiv and Moscow carried out dozens of drone and missile attacks overnight, damaging a fuel tank in a region bordering Russia.

Both sides have recently stepped up cross-border air attacks. weeks as Kyiv attacks Russian energy facilities and Moscow begins retaliatory attacks.

Russia said it had shot down 87 Ukrainian drones, of which 70 were aimed at the southern Rostov region, where its military operation against Ukraine is headquartered.

The Ministry of Defense said that 70 drones were shot down over Rostov, six each over Kursk and Voronezh, two each over Volgograd and the Belgorod region bordering Ukraine, and one over the annexed Crimean Peninsula.

< p>The attacks triggered power outages in several districts of the Rostov region, its governor Vasily Golubev reported on social networks.

In the Voronezh region, which borders Ukraine, a fuel tank was slightly damaged by falling debris, its regional governor Alexander Gusev said.

Meanwhile, Kyiv said that Ukrainian air defense systems shot down 24 of the 31 Russian drones and missiles launched overnight.

Three people were injured in a drone attack in the east of the country. Sumy region and several houses in neighboring Kharkiv region were damaged.