3 killed in Ukraine drone attack in Belgorod region
Three people were killed in a Ukrainian drone strike in the Russian region of Belgorod on the border with Ukraine on Wednesday, regional governor Vyacheslav Klatkov said in a Telegram.
Three civilians were killed in the village of Lavy in Valouïsk district
, Vyacheslav Kladkov wrote in Telegram. “Ukrainian armed forces launched an explosive device with a drone while people were in the street,” he said.
Russian drone attack damages grain infrastructure
A Russian drone strike damaged Ukrainian grain infrastructure in the Odesa region (south) overnight, local governor Oleg Kiper said Wednesday morning.
Russia “strike three hours south of Odesa region with attack drones”,Oleg Kiper said in TelegramIt explains that “production and transshipment complexes” including “grain warehouses” were affected, but there were no civilian casualties.
Sixth consecutive day of attacks on Moscow and its region
Russian air defense forces shot down three Ukrainian drones in and around Moscow on Wednesday, Russia said. The Russian capital was targeted by such attacks for the sixth consecutive day.
The latest attack comes hours after Russian shelling killed three people and wounded two others in eastern Ukraine on two villages near Lyman, according to the head of the local military administration.
A drone “neutralized by electronic warfare”
One of the drones intercepted by Russia overnight “was neutralized by electronic warfare, lost control and crashed into a building under construction in a Moscow city complex,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a Telegram.
Russian General Sergei Churovikhin has reportedly been removed from his post
According to Alexei Venediktov, the former director of the independent Echo Moscow radio station, which was closed by the authorities, Russian media reported that General Sergei Surovykin, who was the commander of Russian forces in Ukraine, was removed from the command of the space. forces. This information is yet to be officially confirmed. The general has not been seen in public since the brief mutiny of Wagner’s mercenary group last June, in which he has since been allegedly complicit. Sergei Churovikhin was given the nickname “General Armageddon” during the Russian military intervention in the civil war in Syria.
Russia says two new drones shot down near Moscow
Russia says it shot down two Ukrainian drones again. “Last night, air defense shot down a drone in the Mozhaisky district of the Moscow region. A second drone hit a building under construction in the city (of Moscow),” the capital’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said in a telegram, adding that initial reports indicated no casualties. It was the sixth consecutive day of drone attacks. This area is targeted.
Russian news agency RIA Novosti earlier reported hearing an “explosion” in Moscow’s downtown business district. Air traffic from Moscow’s Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo and Vnukovo international airports has been temporarily suspended, TASS reported, citing airlines.
Three people were killed in Russian attacks near Liman
Three people were killed and two wounded in Russian shelling on two villages near Lyman, the head of the Donetsk region’s military administration announced. “According to preliminary data, the invaders attacked the villages with artillery,” the Donetsk regional prosecutor’s office said on Facebook. The first attack took place against Darske at 6:50 pm and half an hour later against the village of Jachytne. The prosecutor’s office added that those killed in Torske were two women and a man aged between 63 and 88 who were sitting on a bench during the strike. In Sumi area, four more civilians were injured by mortar shells.
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