KYIV | Ukraine and Russia reported enemy drone attacks targeting their territories overnight from Friday to Saturday, with Kyiv saying it neutralized 24 Russian drones while Moscow claimed to have shot down 47 Ukrainian machines.
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In a statement, the Ukrainian Air Force said Russia had fired missiles at Ukraine from the Belgorod region, without specifying the number or type.
According to this source, Moscow also launched 28 drones on Ukraine, 24 of which were destroyed by anti-aircraft defenses over the regions of Sumy, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv and Kherson.
The Ukrainian general staff also claimed responsibility for a nighttime strike, without specifying the weapons used, against a fuel depot near the town of Rovenky in the Lugansk region (east), occupied by Russian troops.
According to this source, a fire broke out on this site which, again according to the general staff, supplies the Kremlin’s armed forces and had already been hit “previously” by “Ukrainian weapons”.
Moscow has not confirmed this attack. Kyiv regularly targets Russian industrial and military sites, in response to the bombings that have beset Ukraine since the February 2022 invasion.
Separate Russian bombings also injured four people in the Zaporizhia region (south) in the morning, the head of the regional administration said on Saturday.
For its part, the Russian Defense Ministry said it had neutralized 47 Ukrainian drones overnight, including 17 over the Krasnodar region (southwest), 16 over the Sea of Azov, 12 over above the Kursk region.
In the Russian region of Belgorod, bordering Ukraine, a Ukrainian drone attack killed one person in the village of Ustinka, the governor reported on Telegram on Saturday.
The governor of the Krasnodar region had told him earlier, also on Telegram, that Ukrainian drone attacks had damaged three houses and a car, without causing any casualties.
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