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Russia claimed that its air defenses foiled six Ukrainian drone assaults on Moscow and the Crimean Peninsula early on Sunday .
“On September 17, at about 1.45 Moscow time (2245GMT), an try by the Kyiv regime to hold out a terrorist UAV (unmanned aerial car) assault on objects on the territory of the Russian Federation was stopped,” the Protection Ministry mentioned in a press release. Ukrainian authorities haven’t commented on the claims as of seven.10 GMT.
Russian air protection methods shot down a Ukrainian drone over the Istrinsky district of the Moscow area, it mentioned.
A later assertion claimed that 4 extra Ukrainian UAVs have been destroyed by Russian air protection methods within the following 35 minutes over the northwestern and jap coasts of the Crimean Peninsula.
Within the following hours, Kyiv tried one other drone assault on targets in Russian territory. Russian air protection methods intercepted and destroyed the drone over the Domodedovo district of Moscow, the ministry additional mentioned.
Drone strikes inside Russia have dramatically elevated in current months, with authorities accusing Ukraine of being behind them.
In the meantime, Ukraine’s Air Power Command claimed Russia struck a civilian agricultural facility within the southern area of Odesa with missiles.
The Russian army launched the in a single day assaults on Ukrainian territory utilizing cruise missiles and UAVs, it mentioned in a press release.
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