Friday, September 29, 2023
07:30
SEVERAL UKRAINIAN DRONES DESTROYED
“Eleven Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed by air defense systems, […] “One of them was over the area of the Kaluga region and ten over the Kursk region,” the Russian Defense Ministry said via Telegram. Kursk Governor Roman Starovoit previously stated that the region’s border with eastern Ukraine had been “massively attacked” by Ukrainian drones.
07:27
A FORMER LIEUTENANT OF PRIGOZHIN ON BEHALF OF PUTIN
Vladimir Putin tasked a former lieutenant of Yevgeny Prigoyine, head of the Wagner Group, who fell out of favor in the eyes of the Russian president and died when his plane crashed in late August, with training volunteers to fight in Ukraine.
“At the last meeting we discussed the fact that you will be involved in the training of volunteer units capable of carrying out various combat missions, mainly, of course, in the zone of ‘special military operation’,” Vladimir said in Ukraine, according to one According to a Kremlin press release published on Friday, Putin explained this to Andrei Trochev on Thursday.
06:57
UKRAINIAN DRONE DAMAGES substation in Russia
A Ukrainian drone dropped explosives on a power plant in a Russian village. In Belaya, less than 25 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, “a Ukrainian drone dropped two explosive devices on an electrical substation,” Roman Starovoit, governor of the Kursk region, said on Telegram. “One of the transformers caught fire. Five towns and a hospital were cut off from power. Fire crews are on site,” he said, adding that power “will be restored as soon as it is safe to do so.”
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that it had destroyed two Ukrainian drones over the neighboring Belgorod region. The ministry assured that a first device was destroyed around 5 p.m. on Thursday, around four hours before a second drone was shot down.
06:51
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