Dramatic second Russia shoots down 26 drones over Crimea
- Ministry assertion mentioned interceptions befell between 8:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.
This is the dramatic second Russia shoots down 26 drones over Crimea as Putin‘s Kremlin accuses Ukraine of staging an assault on the annexed peninsula.
Russia mentioned on Friday that it had thwarted a sequence of Ukrainian drone assaults in two border areas.
Over a two-hour interval, 26 drones had been shot down over the Crimea peninsula annexed from Ukraine in 2014, the defence ministry mentioned in a press release, with out saying if there have been any victims or if any injury was sustained.
A ministry assertion mentioned the interceptions befell between 8:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. (1730-1930 GMT).
Earlier, the ministry mentioned in posts on Telegram that six drones concentrating on ‘installations on Russian territory’ had been shot down within the Kursk area, once more with out offering additional particulars.
Videos confirmed drones purportedly being shot down on Friday night
Drone assaults have been nearly every day occurrences in Russia’s border areas, although mass assaults are much less frequent.
The governor of the Kursk area, Roman Starovoit, confirmed the assaults on Telegram, asking residents within the space to ‘keep calm’.
The capital Moscow and its outskirts have additionally been targets of Ukrainian drone assaults.
Russia, in the meantime, bombards Ukrainian cities nearly every day. This week, it launched a large drone assault on southern Ukraine and fired ballistic missiles at Kyiv, the place about 50 folks had been wounded by particles.
Crimea was seized from Ukraine by Russian troops and annexed in 2014.
Video purportedly confirmed a drone assault on Crimea. A separate video appeared to point out present pictures directed in direction of a drone
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