– Russian army claims to have destroyed 30 Ukrainian drones
According to Russian defense, anti-aircraft systems destroyed drones near the border. One civilian casualty was reported in the Belgorod region.
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The victim is an “elderly woman whose house was directly targeted” by a drone, according to Russian authorities. (archive photo)
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The Russian army claimed on Tuesday to have destroyed 30 Ukrainian drones overnight in regions bordering Ukraine where a woman was killed according to local authorities.
“During the night, during an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out terrorist attacks with aerial drones on the territory of the Russian Federation, air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 29 drones in the Belgorod region and one drone in that of Voronezh,” indicated the Russian Ministry of Defense, in a press release on Telegram.
“Unfortunately, a civilian resident was killed” in the village of Belovskoye, in the Belgorod region, declared for his part the regional governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov.
It concerns an “elderly woman whose house was directly targeted” by a drone, he said.
On Sunday, a Ukrainian missile strike in Crimea, a peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014, left at least four dead, including two children, and more than 150 injured, according to local authorities installed by Moscow.
Ukraine, faced with a Russian offensive for more than two years, regularly responds by attacking Russian regions and particularly targeting energy sites.
kyiv had promised to bring the fighting to Russian soil in retaliation for the numerous bombings on its territory.
AFP
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