By Al Jazeera Staff, AFP and ReutersPublished On 12 Jun 202612 Jun 2026Three people have been killed in the border region between Russia and Ukraine, according to officials, as the two sides launched attacks on each other in the latest exchange of fire.In Russia, two civilians were killed and two wounded in the region of Bryansk after Kyiv struck the settlement of Suzemka with artillery, Acting Governor Egor Kovalchuk said in a post on Telegram on Friday.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listA drone also hit an apartment building in Russia’s central region of Tatarstan, injuring three people, while industrial facilities were hit, regional head Rustam Minnikhanov said on the Telegram messaging app.Production work was not suspended, however, he added, but did not identify any plants. The region is home to key oil processing and petrochemical facilities, among others.Russia’s city of Togliatti, home to the country’s biggest carmaker Avtovaz, also came under a drone attack overnight, Samara region Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said on Telegram.“Attention! Drone attack regime for Togliatti,” he wrote. Togliatti is a city on the Volga River some 800 km (500 miles) southeast of Moscow.These strikes are what Ukraine refers to as a “logistics lockdown”, said Al Jazeera’s Audrey MacAlpine, reported from Kyiv. She explained that they are mid-range strikes anywhere over 30 kilometres (17 miles) from the front line, using long-range drones and sometimes heavy weaponry to target things like oil refineries, bridges, logistics, and roads as a means of halting Russia’s front-line operations. Advertisement At the same time, she said, Ukraine also launches what it calls “long-range sanctions” against Russian targets – a “tongue-in-cheek term … that we’ …
