Ukrainian drone crashes on beach with vacationers at Russian Black Sea resort as warning system fails to sound. Seven people killed.

A Ukrainian drone came down on a crowded beach at the Black Sea resort village of Arkhipo-Osipovka, near Gelendzhik, killing seven people, including three children, according to Krasnodar Krai's Operational Headquarters. About forty others were injured, with seventeen hospitalized and four in serious condition, Meduza reports. Officials had flagged a drone threat shortly before 8:35 a.m. and called it off ten minutes later, but residents and tourists say the village's warning sirens never sounded. Accounts differ on why the drone crashed onto the beach, with authorities citing falling debris and Ukrainian channels pointing to electronic warfare interference.

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