Russia on Saturday reported drone strikes on two oil pipeline facilities on its territory, in the Tver region northwest of Moscow and in Pskov in the west of the country, media and a local governor reported.
As reported by the daily Kommersant, two drones attacked a station in the Tver region that supplies the Druzhba oil pipeline, one of the largest in the world.
Tver municipal council said a drone crashed near the village of Erokhino, some 500 km from the border with Ukraine.
Earlier in the day, the governor of Russia’s Pskov region, Mikhail Vedernikov, told the news application Telegram that an administrative building adjacent to an oil pipeline in the region was the target of an attack by two drones, which resulted in no casualties.
The incident happened near the village of Litvinovo, less than 10 km from Russia’s border with Belarus.
The Russian Defense Ministry said in its daily war briefing that it had destroyed 12 Ukrainian drones and intercepted two long-range Storm Shadow cruise missiles supplied by Britain to Ukraine in the past 24 hours.
Russia also claims to have intercepted US-made shorter-range Himars and Harm missiles. The ministry did not provide any information about where these wiretaps took place, but reported fighting at the front.
Portal could not verify the information reported by Russian authorities on the battlefield.
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Reports of Ukrainian drone strikes inside Russia have increased in recent weeks, while Kiev has not publicly admitted to any attacks on targets on Russian territory.
According to a New York Times report, US intelligence believes Ukraine was behind a drone attack on the Kremlin earlier this month.