Drone shot down near Moscow : Russian anti-aircraft defense shot down a drone south of Moscow last night, the capital's mayor said on Thursday. “In the city of Podolsk, an attack by a drone flying towards Moscow was repelled by anti-aircraft defenses. According to preliminary information, there was no damage or casualties in the places where the debris fell,” said Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. In a separate statement, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed to have shot down a Ukrainian drone in the Moscow region and “intercepted” another in the Leningrad (northwest) region, which is rarely affected by attacks of this kind.
A new attack on Belgorod was repelled: The Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, has been hit by deadly attacks for months. Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Thursday that “ten rockets” flying towards Belgorod had been shot down by the armed forces. In this attack, a woman was injured who was hit by shrapnel, said Vyacheslav Gladkov. He said in one village the windows of a house and a garage were destroyed and power lines and gas pipes were damaged.
Ukrainian Defense Minister cancels his visit to France: Ukrainian Defense Minister Roustem Oumerov has canceled his visit to France scheduled for Thursday “for security reasons,” the French Defense Ministry said in a press release on Wednesday evening. However, the Ukrainian minister will take part this Thursday morning via video conference with his French counterpart Sébastien Lecornu in the creation in Paris of an “artillery coalition” aimed at strengthening Kiev's capabilities against Russia.