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The overnight attacks followed three consecutive days of drone attacks on the Russian capital, Moscow. After more than 17 months of war, firing drones at Russia has no obvious military significance for Ukraine, but the tactic has served to destabilize the Russians and expose them to the consequences of the conflict.
The Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday that Russia had repelled an overnight attack by 20 Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow-annexed Crimea. Fourteen drones were shot down by the Russian air defense and six were electronically jammed, the ministry said in a Telegram post. No casualty or damage was reported. The overnight attacks followed three consecutive days of drone attacks on the Russian capital, Moscow. After more than 17 months of war, firing drones at Russia has no obvious military significance for Ukraine, but the tactic has served to destabilize the Russians and expose them to the consequences of the conflict.
Drone attacks have increased in recent weeks on both Moscow and Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014. a move that most of the world considered illegal. Kiev officials have neither confirmed nor denied Ukraine’s possible involvement in the attempted attacks. Elsewhere, Russia claimed on Saturday that it had recaptured the village of Urozhine in Ukraine’s easternmost Luhansk region in an overnight counteroffensive.
Russian shelling in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region killed a 73-year-old woman on Saturday morning, according to regional governor Oleh Sinihubov. Ukraine’s Interior Minister Ihor Klimenko said a guided Russian aerial bomb attack killed a police officer and wounded 12 people in the town of Orikhiv in Ukraine’s partially occupied southern Zaporizhia region. He said that four police officers were also among the injured.
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