LUGANSK, August 24. /TASS/. Two civilians died and nine more were injured after Ukrainian drone attacks on settlements in the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), the republic’s head, Leonid Pasechnik, said.

"The republic came under a massive attack of enemy drones again: two civilians died, nine more were wounded," he wrote on messaging app Max.

According to Pasechnik, two men, of 52 and 54 years of age, died after drone attacks on apartment houses in the Svatovsky and Belovodsky municipalities.

"During the day, neo-Nazis also attacked cars, civilian infrastructure, utilities, and industrial infrastructure facilities in the Starobelsky, Perevalsky, Kremensky, Troitsky, Novospkovskky, Beloukrainsky municipalities, in Lugansk, Rovenki, Lisichansk, Sverdlovsk, and Pervomaisk. Falling drone debris caused fires in four municipalities," he wrote, adding that air defenses shot down over 80 aerial targets.