Two People Hurt in Russian Drone Attack on Kyiv Region, Ukraine Says 

An explosion of a drone is seen in the sky over the city during a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine July 31, 2024. (Reuters)
An explosion of a drone is seen in the sky over the city during a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine July 31, 2024. (Reuters)
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Two People Hurt in Russian Drone Attack on Kyiv Region, Ukraine Says 

An explosion of a drone is seen in the sky over the city during a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine July 31, 2024. (Reuters)
An explosion of a drone is seen in the sky over the city during a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine July 31, 2024. (Reuters)

Debris from Russian drones shot down by Ukraine have injured two people and damaged two homes in the region surrounding the capital in the second such attack on the area in as many nights, Kyiv authorities said on Thursday.

There were no direct hits to residential or critical infrastructure, the authorities said. The air force said it had shot down all seven Shahed-type drones used in the attack.

The strike came a day after Ukraine said Russia used 87 drones against Ukraine in one of its largest drone attacks of the war to date. Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

The governor of the central-eastern Dnipropetrovsk region said the air force shot down one drone over the region and no casualties were reported.

Russia also launched Iskander-M ballistic missiles at the battered northeastern region of Kharkiv overnight, injuring one more person, its governor said.

Ukraine's national railways Ukrzaliznytsia said the Russian missile attack on the region damaged its tracks and power supply facilities, in addition to two locomotives, freight and passenger cars.



China-related Cyber Threats Trigger Crisis between Berlin and Beijing

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, second from left, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, second from right, walk together in Beijing, China, on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (Ding Haitao/Xinhua via AP)
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, second from left, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, second from right, walk together in Beijing, China, on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (Ding Haitao/Xinhua via AP)
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China-related Cyber Threats Trigger Crisis between Berlin and Beijing

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, second from left, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, second from right, walk together in Beijing, China, on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (Ding Haitao/Xinhua via AP)
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, second from left, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, second from right, walk together in Beijing, China, on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (Ding Haitao/Xinhua via AP)

China said Germany has publicly made groundless accusations against it about "so-called cyber intrusion," the Chinese embassy in Germany said.
"China firmly opposes the manipulation of cybersecurity issues and hyped up so-called China-related cyber threats," the embassy said in a statement released late on Wednesday.
Germany accused China of having been behind a 2021 cyberattack on the federal cartography agency for espionage purposes and summoned Beijing's ambassador to Berlin to lodge a complaint, reported Reuters.