Shafaq News- Moscow
A Ukrainian drone strike killed seven civilians and injured 40 others, including three children in the resort village of Arkhipo-Osipovka near Gelendzhik in the Krasnodar region, southern Russia, Russian authorities said on Monday.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova condemned the attack, accusing NATO countries of “sponsoring terrorism” and alleging that the alliance and the European Union “had become part of international terrorist activity.”
Ukraine had not commented on the Russian claims.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian forces had struck Russian several strategic targets. The strikes targeted infrastructure supporting Russia's war effort and vowed to continue long-range operations against military and energy facilities.
We continue applying our long-range sanctions against Russian facilities that serve the war effort and finance the aggression.Last night, in Russia's Saratov, more than 600 kilometers from the front line, two strategic facilities were hit: the Saratov Oil Refinery and the… pic.twitter.com/GjvWrWX0lc
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) August 2, 2026