2023-05-04 09:16:08
The skies of Russia and Ukraine staged a drone war on the 3rd! Moscow first accused Kiev of sending two drones to attack the Kremlin in an attempt to “behead” Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Russian side immediately sent 24 drones to attack targets in Ukraine overnight, retaliating with fire.
The Ukrainian side denied that Kiev was responsible for the bombing of the Kremlin. However, the Russian side did not take it seriously, and used as many as 24 Iranian-made “Witness 136/131” (Shahed-136/131) to attack drones throughout the night on the 4th to retaliate once morest the Ukrainian side. The Ukrainian Air Force claimed on the instant messaging software Telegram on the 4th that the Ukrainian army shot down 18 of them.
The head of the military and political department of the capital Kiev, Popko, said that according to preliminary information, all enemy missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles in the local sky were destroyed by air defense forces.
Popko said the wreckage of downed enemy missiles and drones had landed in various places in Kiev, but “caused no casualties.”
In addition, in the village of Volna in the Krasnodar region near Russia’s annexed Crimea in 2014, a fuel depot for storing oil caught fire on the 3rd. The cause of the fire was “a drone fell. “. The Wall Street Journal reported on the 3rd that this was the latest in a series of attacks and sabotage activities once morest the “Russian-occupied areas” in Kiev on the eve of the expected counteroffensive by the Ukrainian army.
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