Russian defence ministry says 20 Ukrainian drones have been shot down and electronically suppressed in early morning assault.
Russia’s defence ministry stated its forces destroyed a wave of 20 Ukrainian drones over the Russian-annexed Crimean Peninsula.
There have been no casualties and no harm because of the tried assault early on Saturday morning, the defence ministry stated on the Telegram messaging app.
Fourteen drones have been destroyed by air defence techniques and 6 have been suppressed by digital warfare, the ministry stated.
It was not instantly clear what was the goal of the reported assaults on the peninsula.
Sergei Kryuchkov, an adviser to the Russia-installed governor of Crimea, stated earlier that air defence techniques have been engaged in repelling air assaults in numerous components of the peninsula.
Crimea transport authorities stated on their Telegram channel that site visitors on the Crimean Bridge, which hyperlinks the Black Sea peninsula with the Russian area of Krasnodar, was suspended for about two hours from 01:30am native time (22:30 GMT on Friday).
The reported assault on Crimea is simply the newest use by Ukraine of armed drones focusing on deep inside Russia and Russian-controlled territory, although Ukraine nearly by no means publicly claims accountability for such operations.
On Friday, Russian officers stated that Ukrainian drones have been shot down whereas trying to assault Moscow – the third straight day of makes an attempt to hit targets within the Russian capital, whereas Russian missiles killed an 8-year-old boy in Western Ukraine on the identical day.
The missile that killed the boy struck a home in Ukraine’s Ivano-Frankivsk area, about 100km (60 miles) from the Polish border, in response to the workplace of Ukraine’s prosecutor normal.
The drone that was shot down close to Moscow on Friday plunged onto the Karamyshevskaya Embankment, officers stated, which is about 5km (3 miles) from a Moscow enterprise district that was hit twice in earlier drone incidents.
Experiences of drones within the space disrupted flights at two Russian airports on Friday.
Flights later resumed at Vnukovo airport, considered one of Moscow’s busiest, and at Kaluga airport, southwest of the town. It was the third day in a row that Vnukovo airport halted flights because of drone assaults.
