In Ukraine, explosions were reported in the southern city of Odesa and the Cherkasy region. Regional officials in Russia’s Bryansk province also claimed that nine drones were brought down on over its territory on Wednesday. Late that same day, the Kremlin-appointed leader of Crimea claimed that a Ukrainian cruise missile was downed over the peninsula’s eastern part, with falling debris damaging a power line.
Past drone attacks have hit fuel depots and airfields in Crimea or Russian-held areas of Ukraine. We don’t know how many cars and garages were destroyed because firefighters and police won’t let us in.”Īlso on Wednesday, Russia-installed officials in Crimea reported repelling an attack of drones targeting Sevastopol’s harbor. “Look where it hit, look what happened to the house,” she said.
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Kyiv resident Iryna Oblat pointed to debris in the street and shattered windows in surrounding buildings. It was unclear how many were fired, but Popko called it the biggest attack on the capital since spring. Russia launched Iranian-made Shahed exploding drones at the capital from various directions, followed by air-launched missiles, Popko said. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Russian military would undoubtedly analyze “how this was done in order to take appropriate measures to prevent these situations in the future.”įiring at distant Russian targets could reflect a Ukrainian tactic of stretching the Kremlin’s military resources as Moscow scrambles to buttress its air defenses, said Douglas Barrie, senior fellow for military aerospace at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. ”So in this regard, let’s say, that more or less a mass production of these drones has appeared.” “If you look carefully at the news recently, in general, every day there are news about long-range drones that hit various targets both in occupied Crimea and in the territory of Russia,” Fedorov told AP recently. Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s minister of digital transformation, said his country has drones with a range of up to 500 kilometers (300 miles), although he did not take responsibility for any attacks in Russia or Crimea, the peninsula that Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014. The Associated Press was unable to confirm whether the drones were launched from Ukraine or inside Russia.
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