Ukraine tried overnight to attack Moscow with dozens of drones, Russian officials said Sunday, just a day after Ukrainian officials reported that Russia had launched its most intense drone attack on Kiev since the start of its large-scale war in 2022.
Russian air defenses shot down at least 24 drones over the Moscow region, which surrounds but does not include the capital, and four other provinces to the south and west, the Russian Defense Ministry and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said in a statement. series of Telegram updates.
None made reference to any victim.
Andrei Vorobyev, governor of the Moscow region, wrote on Telegram that the drone strikes damaged three unspecified buildings there, adding that no one was injured.
A drone crashed into a 12-story apartment block in the western Russian city of Tula, about 180 kilometers (113 miles) south of Moscow, slightly injuring one resident and causing limited damage, the governor wrote. local Aleksei Dyumin on Telegram on Sunday morning.
Russian authorities report that Ukraine attempted to attack Moscow overnight with dozens of drones.AP The governor of the Moscow region declared that three buildings were hit and no one was injured.AP
Moscow’s Vnukovo and Domodedovo airports also closed briefly due to the drone attack, according to Russian state news agency Tass.
Both appeared to have resumed normal operations at 6 a.m. local time, according to data from international flight tracking portals.
Russian Telegram channels speculated that Ukrainian forces had deployed a never-before-seen type of drone in the alleged attack, pointing out some similarities to the Iranian-made weapons that Moscow routinely employs in its attacks against Ukraine.
Russian Telegram channels pointed out similarities between recent Ukrainian drone attacks and Iranian-made drones used by Russia.AP
The Russian capital has been the target of regular drone attacks since May, and Russian officials blame Ukraine.
Military analysts commented at the time that the first attacks used locally made Ukrainian drones that could not carry as heavy a payload as the Iranian-made Shaheds used by Russia.
Late Sunday morning, Ukrainian officials did not acknowledge or comment on the strikes, which came a day after Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital with more than 60 Shahed drones. TO
At least five civilians were injured in the hours-long assault, in which several buildings were damaged by falling debris from downed drones, including a kindergarten.
Among the injured was an 11-year-old boy, according to kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
The Ukrainian air force said early Sunday that it had shot down eight of nine Shahed drones fired overnight by Russian forces.
Also on Sunday morning, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that two Soviet-made S-200 rockets fired from Kiev were shot down over the Sea of Azov, which stretches between Crimea and the southeastern coast of Russian-occupied Ukraine.
Russia often uses Iranian-made Shahed drones.AP
According to local news sources, air raid sirens earlier sounded in Russian-annexed Crimea, which on Friday was the target of what Russian officials called a major drone attack.
Road traffic was also briefly halted Sunday morning across the 19-kilometer (12-mile) bridge connecting Crimea to the Russian mainland.
There were no reports of casualties or comment from officials in kyiv.
Elsewhere, parts of Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine were left without power following an overnight Ukrainian attack on a thermal power plant in the Donetsk region, a Moscow-based local official reported on Telegram on Sunday.
Russian-occupied areas in eastern Ukraine were left without electricity after a thermal power plant in the Donetsk region was hit by a Ukrainian attack.
According to Denis Pushilin, who heads the province that Russia illegally annexed last year, the attack on the Starobesheve plant knocked out electricity to parts of the occupied cities of Donetsk and Mariupol, along with other nearby areas.
On the outskirts of Donetsk, Russian troops have continued their attempts to advance near Avdiivka, the eastern town that has been a Ukrainian stronghold and combat hotspot since the early days of the war, according to Ukrainian General Staff reports and analysis. from Washington. -Institute for the Study of War.
The Ukrainian General Staff said Sunday morning that Kiev forces over the previous 24 hours repulsed Russian attacks northeast, west and southwest of Avdiivka, as Moscow’s troops strive to encircle the city.
Paramedics provide psychological help to residents of an apartment building damaged after a Russian drone attack in kyiv, Ukraine, AP
Several Russian bloggers also made unconfirmed claims that Ukrainian forces had begun to withdraw from the industrial zone on Avdiivka’s southern flank, although others said that Russian troops lacked full control of the area.
These claims could not be independently verified.
Russian shelling killed two civilians in the Donetsk region on Saturday and overnight, Ukraine’s acting governor Ihor Moroz reported on Telegram on Sunday morning.
During that same period, Russian projectiles wounded one person in northern Ukraine’s Sumy province, which borders Russia, according to a Telegram update from the Ukrainian regional military command.
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