2023-08-26 14:01:57
Russia said on Saturday it shot down three Ukrainian drones. Six civilians were also injured in a strike. In Ukraine, a Russian bombardment killed two people.
Russian air defense shot down at night a drone approaching Moscowsaid the mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin, early on Saturday.
Another Ukrainian drone was shot down on Saturday morning by Russian air defense in the Chebekino district of the Belgorod region bordering Ukraine, according to a statement from the Russian Defense Ministry. Finally, a third Ukrainian drone was shot down in the Belgorod region in the followingnoon, according to the same source.
Russia also accused Ukrainian forces for shelling a village in the Belgorod region with grenade launchers on Saturday, the strike having injured six civilians, according to a new report from the local authorities. “The fragmentation grenades targeted private houses” as well as a store in the village of Urazovo, in the Valuysk district, wrote on Telegram the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov.
Two dead in Ukraine
In Ukraine, two people were killed and one was injured in a Russian shelling of the village of Podolynear the city of Kupyansk (northeast), announced the governor of the region on Saturday.
“The enemy targeted a civilian target, a cafe very popular with residents,” Kharkiv Oleg Synegubov said on social media.
Collision between two planes
Moreover, three Ukrainian pilots lost their lives following the collision between two planes, various Ukrainian media reported on Saturday. In Zhytomyr, in northern Ukraine, two L-39 training aircraft collided.
One of the victims is nicknamed “Juice”. Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it has been involved in a whole series of dogfights. In interviews with Western media, she repeatedly called for the delivery of F-16s to her country.
US journalist Evan Gershkovich appeals his Russian detention extension
The Wall Street Journal American reporter Evan Gershkovich, arrested in March in Russia on ‘espionage’ charges which he rejects, has appealed the extension of his pre-trial detention, the court said on Saturday.
According to the website of the Moscow City Court, the journalist’s defense appealed on Friday once morest the decision of a judge of extend his pre-trial detention until November 30pending trial.
Evan Gershkovich was arrested by Russian security services during a report in Yekaterinburg, in the Urals, on March 29. He has since been held in Lefortovo prison in Moscow, used by the Russian security services to keep prisoners in near total solitude.
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