KievcTypeface:> Russian opposition politician Ilya Ponomaryov has been injured in a Russian drone attack at his place of exile in Ukraine.
Ponomaryov, a former lawmaker in the Duma lower house of parliament in Moscow, said in a social media post on Thursday that it was the fifth such attack he has faced. A photograph circulating in local media showed Ponomaryov in hospital with wounds on his face and blood running down his neck.
The Ukrainian police released footage of a damaged three-storey private residence in the Kiev region and provided information about an injured couple, without naming Ponomaryov. Both are being treated in a hospital in Kiev, it said.
Ponomaryov was a member of the Duma from 2007 to 2016. He was the only member of parliament to vote against the annexation of the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula of Crimea in March 2014. (DPA)