2023-08-25 00:02:33
The Ukrainian army carried out new drone attacks in Russia, targeting Moscow and its region for the sixth consecutive day, but also the border region of Belgorod where three people were killed on Wednesday.
The attacks came hours following three people were killed and two others injured in Russian shelling of two villages near Lyman in eastern Ukraine, according to the head of the local military administration.
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Attack on Belgorod
The Ukrainian attack in Belgorod killed “three civilians” in the village of Lavy, in the Valouïsk district, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Telegram.
“Ukrainian Armed Forces launched an explosive device via a drone when people were on the street,” he said.
Drone neutralized in Moscow
In the Moscow region, a drone “was neutralized by means of electronic warfare and, having lost control, collided with a building under construction in the Moscow City complex“Without causing any casualties,” the Russian Defense Ministry said on Telegram, accusing Kyiv of being behind the attack.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Telegram that several windows in two five-story buildings had been damaged and emergency services were inspecting the perimeter.
The Russian news agency RIA Novosti had reported earlier that an “explosion” had been heard in the business district of Moscow City, located in the west of the Russian capital, some 5 kilometers from the Kremlin.
Damage to Khimki
Two other devices were destroyed by air defense in the districts of Mojaisk, 12 kilometers from the center of Moscow, as well as Khimki in the capital region, some 20 kilometers northwest of the Kremlin. , according to the Department of Defense.
The carcass of the drone shot down in Khimki damaged, without causing any injuries, the roof and the windows of a house as well as the wall of a non-residential building housing businesses, according to RIA Novosti.
Disruptions at Moscow airports
Air traffic at Moscow’s Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo and Vnukovo international airports was briefly interrupted, state news agency TASS reported, citing emergency services.
Russian territory is now targeted almost daily by drones, like Moscow and its region, targeted every day since Friday.
On Friday, a craft was shot down by Moscow forces and crashed in the area of the Exhibition Center, adjacent to the skyscrapers of Moscow City.
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During the summer, other aircraft were destroyed over the business district of Moscow, the most important of the Russian capital, and in May, two drones were shot down near the Kremlin.
Deadly attacks in Ukraine
In Ukraine, the Russian forces “struck the villages of the Lyman community“, in eastern Ukraine, Tuesday evening: “three people were killed and one injured in Torske, another civilian was injured in Zakitne“, wrote the head of the military administration of the Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko, on Telegram.
In addition, a Russian drone attack during the night damaged Ukrainian grain infrastructure in the Odessa region (south), local governor Oleg Kiper said on Wednesday morning.
In total, the Ukrainian army destroyed nine drones of the “Shahed-136/131” type from the eastern coast of the Sea of Azov, the South Ukrainian Defense Forces reported on Telegram.
For its part, Moscow said it repelled Tuesday from its territory an armed incursion from Ukraine into the border region of Bryansk.
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New phase of conflict
Senior Ukrainian officials insist that Kyiv’s counter-offensive will be long and difficult.
US media have begun reporting that Washington, the engine of military aid to Ukraine, is becoming increasingly wary of Kyiv’s ability to retake a significant portion of its territory.
On the Black Sea front, where maritime skirmishes have multiplied since Moscow slammed the door on an agreement to export Ukrainian cereals, Russia reported on Tuesday having “destroyed” two Ukrainian military ships.
Russian Defense explained that it sank a Ukrainian military vessel, in an area under its control in the Black Sea, as well as an American-made Ukrainian launch off Serpents’ Island, released in 2022 by Kyiv.
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