Another night of carpet airstrikes between Russia and Ukraine.
The Russian authorities report attacks, shooting downs and closures of airspace in at least seven regions of the country, including that of the capital.
At least 10 drones attacked Pskov airport in the night, not far from the border with Estonia: after the attack, which damaged at least four Ilyushin Il-76 strategic transport aircraft, Russian troops displaced the remaining transport aircraft: at least five aircraft
they left the airport during the night, military sources said.
The Moscow airports of Domodedovo, Vnukovo and Sheremetyevo have been temporarily closed, after the defense ministry announced the downing of a military drone over the capital region. The Vnukovo airport had already been closed and then temporarily reopened a few hours before this new provision. The Russian dicastery stated that “at around 3:30 Moscow time the attempt by the Kiev government to attack structures in Russia with a fixed-wing drone, intercepted and crashed on the territory of the municipality of
Ruzsky”, west of the capital.
The same ministry informs that Military drones were shot down overnight over the Russian oblasts of Bryansk and Oryol. “An attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack against facilities on the territory of the Russian Federation using fixed-wing drones was thwarted this morning,” reads a statement, adding that “missile defense units shot down three drones above the region of
Bryansk and a drone over the Oryol one”.
According to the dicastery others “Ukrainian unmanned vehicles” flying over Ryazan and Kaluga oblasts were “intercepted and destroyed by air defense” . The airspace over Russia’s Tula oblast was also closed overnight, according to local media.
Furthermore, explosions were heard this morning in Shebekino, in the Belgorod region of Russia and in central Donetsk: RBC-Ukraine reports it, citing local Telegram channels. According to the same sources, some areas of the city are without electricity.
The massive attack by Ukrainian drones 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 the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, quoted by the Tass agency. “Obviously – said the spokeswoman – this agony of the Kiev regime, hatred, anger and the lack of any perspective 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 has destroyed four Ukrainian naval vessels in the Black Sea, carrying a total of 50 members of Kiev’s special forces. Around midnight local time “a naval air force aircraft destroyed four fast naval vessels which
they were carrying landing parties of Ukrainian special operations forces totaling up to 50 people,” the defense ministry said.
Drones and missiles on Kiev, two dead
Kiev experienced its worst attack “since last spring” tonightlocal military authorities said this morning after two people were killed and three others injured in a raid by Russian missiles and drones on the Ukrainian capital.
“Due to falling debris in Shevchenkivskyi district two men were found dead in a non-residential building”, wrote the head of the military administration of the Ukrainian capital Sergei Popko in Telegram. The casualty toll was later upgraded to three, with Mayor Vitali Klitschko reporting two more people hit by debris in Kiev.
At least three explosions were heard in the Ukrainian capital, around 5 am local time.
More than 20 missiles and drones were “destroyed by the air defense forces” during the first hours of eachalready, the military administration of Kiev wrote in Telegram. Russian forces hurled groups of Iranian-made Shahed unmanned attack aircraft at the capital from different directions and fired missiles from aircraft, authorities in the Ukrainian capital added.
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2023-08-30 14:04:00
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