Another night of large-scale airstrikes between Russia and Ukraine.
Russian authorities report attacks, shootings and airspace closures in at least seven regions of the country, including the capital.
At least ten drones attacked Pskov airport not far from the border with Estonia during the night: Afterwards After the attack, which damaged at least four Ilyushin Il-76 strategic transport aircraft, Russian troops relocated the remaining transport aircraft: at least five aircraft
They left the harbor at night, Military sources report.
Moscow’s Domodedovo, Vnukovo and Sheremetyevo airports were temporarily closed. after the Defense Ministry announced the downing of a military drone over the capital region. Vnukovo Airport had already been closed a few hours before this new measure and then temporarily reopened. The Russian ministry said that “at around 3:30 p.m. Moscow time, the Kyiv government’s attempt to attack structures in Russia with a fixed-wing drone was thwarted, intercepted and crashed on the territory of the municipality.”
Ruzsky”, west of the capital.
This is reported by the same ministry Military drones were shot down in the skies of Russia’s Bryansk and Oryol oblasts tonight. “An attempt by the Kiev regime to use fixed-wing drones to carry out a terrorist attack on facilities on the territory of the Russian Federation was foiled this morning,” it said in a statement, saying that “missile defense units shot down three drones.” above the region
Bryansk and a drone over Oryol”.
According to the ministry, others too “Ukrainian unmanned vehicles” flying over Ryazan and Kaluga Oblasts were “intercepted and destroyed by air defense.” According to local media, the airspace over Russia’s Tula Oblast was also closed overnight.
Aside from that, This morning explosions were heard in Shebekino, Russia’s Belgorod region and central Donetsk: Rbc-Ukraine reports it, citing local Telegram channels. According to the same sources, some parts of the city are without electricity.
The massive Ukrainian drone attack on various parts of Russian territory last night is a sign of the “agony” and “stalemate” in which “the Kiev regime” finds itself. This was stated by Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, quoted by the Tass agency. “Obviously,” said the spokeswoman, “this torment of the Kiev regime, the hatred, the anger and the lack of prospects in the development of the country have led to these terrorist actions, there are no more options, an absolute stalemate.”
On the other hand, Moscow says it destroyed four Ukrainian naval ships in the Black Sea carrying a total of 50 members of the Kiev special forces. Around midnight local time, “a naval air force aircraft destroyed four fast naval vessels
They carried landing parties of Ukrainian special forces with a total of up to 50 people,” the Defense Ministry said.
Drones and missiles over Kiev, two dead
Kiev suffered its worst attack “since last spring” this eveningLocal military authorities said this morning after an attack by Russian missiles and drones on the Ukrainian capital left two people dead and three others injured.
“Due to falling debris, two men were found dead in a non-residential building in Shevchenkivskyi district,” wrote the head of the military administration of the Ukrainian capital Sergei Popko on Telegram. The number of injured was raised to three shortly afterwards, with Mayor Vitali Klitschko announcing that two more people had been hit by debris in Kiev.
At around 5 a.m. local time, at least three explosions were heard in the Ukrainian capital.
More than 20 missiles and drones were “destroyed by air defense forces” in the first hours of todayYes, the Kiev military administration wrote on Telegram. Russian forces hurled groups of Iranian-made Shahed unmanned combat aircraft toward the capital from multiple directions and fired missiles from aircraft, authorities in the Ukrainian capital added.
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