Drone Appears at Russian Resort... '7 Dead,' Fierce Criticism That 'Civilians Were Targeted'

A drone suddenly flies into the sky above a beach where vacationers and residents are peacefully enjoying the water.

Several gunshots, sounding like a machine gun, are heard, and the drone crashes onto the beach and explodes.

On the 3rd local time, a Ukrainian drone attacked Arkhipo-Osipovka, a popular Russian resort area on the Black Sea coast.

The attack left 7 people dead, including 3 children, and 40 others injured.

Local authorities accused Ukraine of carrying out a "deliberate airstrike targeting civilians."

Ukraine has not yet issued a statement.

While both Russia and Ukraine have maintained throughout the war that they do not target civilians, it remains unknown what the target of this Ukrainian drone attack was.

Some speculate that jamming may have disrupted the drone's signal, causing it to crash onto the beach.

Over the past year, Ukraine has seen success in long-range attacks against Russia using drones.

Energy infrastructure and commercial warehouses have been the main targets of Ukrainian drones.

In recent weeks, it has intensively targeted logistics warehouses owned by Wildberries, a major online retailer dubbed the "Amazon of Russia."

Dozens of Wildberries warehouses across Russia, thousands of kilometers away from the Ukrainian border, have been attacked, though no casualties have been reported.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy justified the attacks on civilian infrastructure, stating that the warehouses were used to supply Russian military supplies.

(Reported by Yu Deok-gi | Video by Kim Jun-hee | Graphics by Hwang Se-yeon | Produced by SBS Digital News)
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