Russian officials accuse Ukraine of launching what appears to be the biggest nighttime drone attack on Russian soil since the war began 18 months ago.
Despite a government-ordered evacuation amid approaching fighting, most residents in areas around Kharkiv in northeast Ukraine have refused to leave.Two drones were downed over the Oryol region, Gov. Andrei Klychkov said. Two more were downed over the Ryazan region and one over the Moscow region, officials said.
The Oryol and Kaluga regions border Bryansk, and the Moscow region sits on top of Kaluga. Pskov, however, is about 430 miles north of Russia’s border with Ukraine, and was described byAlso early Wednesday, Russian-installed officials in Crimea, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014, reported repelling an attack of drones targeting the harbor of the port city of Sevastopol.or Russian-held regions. Moscow officials have blamed Kyiv for the attacks.
There was no immediate comment from Ukrainian officials, who usually refuse to claim responsibility for any attacks on Russian soil.Ukraine’s air defenses destroyed 28 cruise missiles and 15 of 16 Iranian-made Shahed attack drones targeting the capital and multiple regions across the country overnight, the Ukrainian Air Force said in its daily Telegram update Wednesday.
It said 43 weapons were downed in Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Cherkasy and the Odesa and Mykolaiv regions in the south of the country. The statement did not say what happened to the 16th drone.
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