Russian air defenses shot down 32 enemy drones this Friday evening in a massive attack on the annexed Crimean peninsula, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday, while Ukraine announced it had also been attacked with 30 aircraft.
“The terrorist attack” in Kiev, as defined in the military statement, was carried out with unmanned devices.
Ukrainian “drones” also attacked several districts in the Kursk region, which borders Ukraine, Governor Román Staravoit said on Telegram.
The attack caused damage to eight houses, which suffered several losses, and to a compressor factory at the railway station in the city of Dmitriev.
The electric line feeding a factory in the Zheleznodorozhki district, considered one of the largest producers of iron ore in the post-Soviet space, was also affected.
At an event organized by Russian Railways, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday drew attention to paying special attention to the safety of the railway network in the face of Ukrainian sabotage.
The Ukrainian air force, in turn, claimed to have repelled another Russian drone attack overnight, shooting down 30 of 31 aircraft launched over several regions of the country.
“A total of 31 Shahed-136/131 attack drones were launched during the offensive launched by the occupiers in various regions of Ukraine,” the air force said in a statement.
The attack included the capital Kiev, the southern Kherson region and the western Khmelnytsky region, all of which are regularly attacked by Russia.
Russian authorities reported the death of one person in Ukrainian night bombings in the occupied part of the Kherson region, in the south of the country.
The governor of Russia’s Belgorod region, Viatcheslav Gladkov, reported 41 Ukrainian attacks in the past 24 hours on this border and often targeted area.
On Friday evening, the Russian army said it had repelled an attack by 26 Ukrainian drones over Crimea, a peninsula annexed in 2014, in two hours.
A few hours earlier, the Russian region of Koursk was targeted by six drones.
These types of attacks occur almost daily on both sides of the confrontation and the number of devices used is increasing.
Source: DN
