Russia thwarted an assault by 20 Ukrainian drones focusing on Moscow-annexed Crimea in a single day, in line with the Russian Protection Ministry
Police and emergency autos parked along with the wreckage of the drone fell close to the Karamyshevskaya embankment to the after a reported drone assault in Moscow, Russia, on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. The Mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin stated a drone fell in western Moscow after it was shot down by air protection techniques. Sobyanin stated no-one was harm when the drone fell close to Karamyshevskaya embankment and that no severe harm was prompted. Russian social media channels shared movies of what they stated was a drone flying low above Moscow and of smoke rising above the Moscow river. (AP Photograph)
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KYIV, Ukraine — Russia thwarted an assault by 20 Ukrainian drones focusing on Moscow-annexed Crimea in a single day, the Russian Protection Ministry stated Saturday.
Fourteen drones have been shot down by Russian air defenses and an additional six have been jammed electronically, the ministry stated in a Telegram submit. No casualties or harm have been reported.
The in a single day assaults adopted three consecutive days of drone assaults on the Russian capital, Moscow. Firing drones at Russia, after greater than 17 months of struggle has little obvious army worth for Ukraine, however the technique has served to unsettle Russians and convey dwelling to them the battle’s penalties.
Drone assaults have elevated in latest weeks each on Moscow and on Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014 — a transfer that a lot of the world thought-about unlawful.
Kyiv officers neither confirmed nor denied Ukraine’s doable involvement within the tried assaults.
Elsewhere, Russia claimed Saturday it had regained management of the village of Urozhaine in Ukraine’s easternmost Luhansk area in an in a single day counterattack.
A 73-year-old lady was killed early Saturday morning in Russian shelling of Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv area, in line with regional Gov. Oleh Syniehubov.
Ukrainian inner affairs minister Ihor Klymenko stated a police officer was killed and 12 folks wounded when a guided Russian aerial bomb hit the town of Orikhiv in Ukraine’s partially occupied southern Zaporizhzhia area. 4 of the wounded have been additionally law enforcement officials, he stated.
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