MOSCOW: The Russian air defence has intercepted and destroyed 158 Ukrainian drones throughout a number of areas over the previous evening, the Russian Defence Ministry mentioned in an announcement on Sunday. UAVs have been shot down over greater than a dozen Russian areas, in response to an announcement issued by the Ministry on Sunday morning.
9 of the downed drones focused Moscow and the Moscow area, the assertion mentioned, including that 46 drones have been destroyed over the Kursk area, 34 over Bryansk, 28 over Voronezh, and 14 over Belgorod. A number of extra have been shot down over 9 different Russian areas. The drones shot down have resulted in a hearth in a Moscow refinery and at an influence plant within the Tver area neighbouring Moscow, native officers mentioned as reported by Xinhua information company. The authorities additional mentioned the fireplace in each areas had been contained, and no accidents have been reported.
Moscow was additionally the goal of an assault, with seven drones shot down over the Moscow area and two extra above the capital itself, the assertion added as reported by RT. In accordance with the Ministry, eight UAVs have been destroyed within the Ryazan area, 5 within the Kaluga area, 4 within the Lipetsk area, and three within the Tula area.
One or two drones have been additionally shot down above the Tambov, Smolensk, Orel, Tver, and Ivanovo areas, it added. Moscow mayor Sergey Sobyanin mentioned that a minimum of 11 drones have been destroyed close to or contained in the capital through the Ukrainian raid. Two UAVs have been shot down within the neighborhood of the Moscow Oil Refinery within the southeast of the town, he mentioned.
One of many unmanned plane crashed into an engineering constructing, the mayor famous, including that the firefighters have been extinguishing the blaze. Three UAVs additionally focused the Kashira State District Energy Plant, in response to the Moscow area’s Kashira metropolis district chief, Mikhail Shuvalov. There have been no casualties or injury, he added.
Kyiv intensified its plane-type drone incursions into Russia in January, primarily focusing on vitality infrastructure, but additionally hitting residential areas. Moscow responded by including Ukrainian energy vegetation to its record of authentic navy targets. Most of Ukraine’s non-nuclear technology capability has been disabled or destroyed by Russian strikes since then.
A serious Ukrainian UAV assault on Russian territory befell in mid-August and noticed 117 UAVs destroyed by air defences. One other raid, simply over every week in the past, concerned 45 drones, with 11 of them focusing on Moscow, in response to the Russian Defence Ministry.
