Russia said it shot down a Ukrainian drone in the annexed Crimean peninsula this morning, as well as a second drone in Russia’s Kursk region near the border with Ukraine.
The Ukrainian drones “were destroyed in the air over the Black Sea near the Crimean peninsula and over the territory of the Kursk region by in-service air defense systems,” the Russian Defense Ministry said.
In a note published on the Telegram messaging platform, the ministry specified that the two attacks occurred around 1:00 a.m. (11:00 p.m. on Sunday in Lisbon).
Kursk Region Governor Roman Starovoyt announced on Friday that “two Ukrainian drones” had attacked the town of Kurchatov, damaging an administrative building and a residential building.
On Sunday, the Ukrainian navy said six Russian soldiers were killed in an attack on a Russian military patrol boat as it carried out a landing operation in the northwestern Black Sea.
“Six occupants (…) died and two more (…) were injured,” the Ukrainian Navy said in a statement, accompanied by a video showing Russian soldiers jumping from the ship to unload material, possibly weapons, when a A huge explosion occurs.
Ukraine has intensified attacks in the Black Sea and Crimea mainly using ‘drones’, which have already caused serious damage, such as the Russian warship Olenogorsky Gornyak and the Kerch bridge, which connects the peninsula with the Russian mainland.
Russia said on Saturday that it shot down three Ukrainian naval drones in the Black Sea that were targeting the Kerch Bridge, a strategic structure that had already come under attack in the summer.
Kursk Region Governor Roman Starovoyt announced on Friday that “two Ukrainian drones” had attacked the town of Kurchatov, damaging an administrative building and a residential building.
The still Ukrainian Defense Minister stated that Ukraine will increase the production of ‘drones’ already in autumn, in an interview with the Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform, published on Sunday.
“I think that this fall there will be a ‘boom’ in the production of various Ukrainian ‘drones’ – flying, hovering, crawling – and it will continue to grow in volume,” Oleksii Reznikov said, referring to the policy of increasing the manufacture of this gun started almost a year ago.
The government simplified or eliminated some laws and regulations, giving “an opportunity to have this momentum, especially for ‘drone’ manufacturers who started production in workshops,” he said.
On Sunday night, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that he would replace Reznikov with Rustem Umerov, a prominent leader of the Crimean Tatar community who has represented Kiev in sensitive negotiations with Moscow.
Source: TSF
