Russia reports a wave of Ukrainian drones heading towards Moscow. Some of the aircraft are said to have landed near the capital.
According to authorities, Russian air defenses shot down several drones in one of the largest Ukrainian air strikes on Moscow. “Eleven drones were destroyed” over the Russian capital and the surrounding region, the Russian Defense Ministry announced on Wednesday. “This is one of the largest attempts to attack Moscow with drones to date,” said Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. He had previously stated that no damage or casualties had been reported.
Some of the drones landed in the Podolsk district, which is just a few dozen kilometers south of Moscow’s city limits, Sobyanin said. According to him, ten drones were intercepted on their way to Moscow. There was initially no independent information or information from the Ukrainian armed forces on this.
According to the Russian state news agency Tass, further drones were shot down in the Tula and Bryansk regions. Again, there was no further information on the type of aircraft shot down. Meanwhile, a missile was shot down in the southern Russian region of Rostov.
Russia attacks Ukraine every night with drones
Drone attacks on Moscow are rare. In May, Russia announced that it had shot down a drone outside the capital. This also led to brief restrictions at Moscow’s two airports.
The Ukrainian General Staff announced that a Russian S-300 anti-aircraft system had been attacked near Novoshakhtinsk in the Rostov region. Explosions were observed at the specified location, and the accuracy of the hit is still being analyzed. Russia has repeatedly used the system, which was actually designed to attack targets in the air, to attack ground targets in Ukraine. Buildings have been destroyed and the civilian population terrorized, the statement said. There was no independent confirmation of the information about the attack.
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Since the Russian invasion in February 2022, Ukraine has been subjected to air strikes every night, targeting important energy infrastructure, among other things. Explosions were also reported in the western Ukrainian region of Khmelnytskyi on the night of Wednesday. In the morning, there was also an alarm in several parts of Ukraine because Russian drones were in the air.
Source: Stern
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