Russia claimed to have shot down three Ukrainian drones attempting to attack Moscow and the Rostov border region early Thursday morning, while Ukraine claimed to have registered a new attack on a port infrastructure in the Odesa region.
The head of the Military Administration of the Odessa region, Oleg Kiper, stated that the Ukrainian air force managed to shoot down 25 of the 33 Shahed drones, made by Iran, launched by Russia overnight against the Odessa (south) and Sumi regions. (northeast). .
Oleg Kiper stressed that “this is already the fourth attack in the last five days against the Izmail district” in Odessa, where the Ukrainian river ports on the Danube are located, which Ukraine uses to export grain.
The three-hour attack caused “damage to civil and port infrastructure in various areas, [incluindo] a silo and an administrative building,” and one person suffered minor injuries, Kiper said on the Telegram messaging platform.
In recent weeks, Russian forces have stepped up shelling of port areas in the Ukrainian province of Odessa, with attacks on the cities of Izmail and Reni.
The Russian Defense Ministry indicated that around midnight (10:00 p.m. on Wednesday in Lisbon) “an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack with three unmanned aerial vehicles against objects on the territory of the Russian Federation was interrupted. Russian Federation”. .
In a statement, the ministry explained that air defense systems destroyed three Ukrainian drones, two of them over Rostov, which borders the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine, and one over the Ramensky district in the Moscow province.
The Rostov governor said at least one person was injured after the wreckage of one of two drones shot down by Russian air defenses landed in the city of Rostov-on-Don.
In a message posted on Telegram, Vasili Golubev explained that the air defenses were activated around 03:00 (01:00 in Lisbon), shooting down two UAVs.
One of the drones landed in the western suburbs of Rostov-on-Don, while the second landed in the city center, injuring one person, who refused to be hospitalized, and damaging several vehicles and the facades of three buildings, it said. Golubev.
On the contrary, the Dutch news agency BNO News assured that the second drone was shot down near strategic military installations for the defense of southern Russia.
In a post on the social network X (formerly Twitter), BNO News posted video of the device exploding upon impact with the ground after being shot down.
A downed drone near the Russian military headquarters in Rostov-on-Don caused an explosion on the ground pic.twitter.com/xKBhDKGqLW
– BNO News (@BNONoticias) September 7, 2023
In addition, the mayor of the Russian capital, Sergei Sobyanin, reported this Thursday morning that the air defenses “prevented an attempted attack with a drone in Moscow”, in the urban district of Ramensky, without registering victims or damage to the place. the remains fell.
Ukraine has intensified attacks in the Black Sea, Crimea and against Moscow, mainly using drones, which have already caused serious damage, such as the Russian warship Olenogorsky Gornyak and the Kerch bridge, which connects the Crimean peninsula with the mainland of Russia.
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