Moscow/Kyiv (EFE). – Russian authorities this Friday denounced Ukrainian drone strikes on the Kursk and Voronezh regions.
The attack on the regional capital of the same name, around 520 kilometers south of Moscow, was carried out in Voronezh, according to local governor Aleksandr Gusev.
As Gusev wrote on Telegram, the city’s anti-aircraft forces spotted three drones a few kilometers from the capital and destroyed them without causing casualties or damage.
Local authorities also reported that another unmanned aerial vehicle crashed in the town of Kurchatov in the Kursk region on the border with Ukraine last night.
According to the Telegram channel Shot, the drone crashed four kilometers from the Kursk nuclear power plant.
Image provided by the Russian Defense Ministry shows weapons supplied by the Wagner Group to Russian troops at an undisclosed location. EFE/EPA/RUSSIAN MINISTRY OF DEFENSE
Ukraine destroys 16 of the 17 shahed that Russia launched last night
For its part, Ukraine’s Air Force reported in a statement this Friday that its anti-aircraft defenses intercepted 16 of a total of 17 Iran-made Shahed Kamikaze drones that Russia had fired at Ukraine’s territory in the past few hours.
“From the afternoon of July 13 to 4 a.m. on July 14, the ‘Rushists’ attacked Ukraine with 17 drones from the southeast,” the Air Force report said.
The note goes on to say that 16 of these drones were shot down by the Ukrainian Air Force in various areas in southern and eastern Ukraine.
Specifically, six of the Shahed were shot down in Krivi Rig Oblast (southeast), where one of the unmanned aerial vehicles launched by Russia failed to intercept, destroying an administrative building of a municipal enterprise and injuring a 56-year-old man. .
Russia also launched a reconnaissance drone into orbit in Ukrainian airspace last night, which Kiev said was shot down by Ukrainian forces.
Yesterday, Ukraine destroyed six more Russian intelligence-gathering drones.