MOSCOW: Ukraine struck Russian areas with a significant drone and missile assault in a single day, damaging factories in at the least three cities, officers and media stated.
The Shot Telegram channel stated that Russia had downed greater than 200 Ukrainian drones and 5 US-made ATACMS ballistic missiles.
“The enemy has organised an enormous mixed strike on the territory of the Russian areas,” the Two Majors warfare blogger stated.
Roman Busargin, governor of the Saratov area about 720km southeast of Moscow, stated the cities of Saratov and Engels, on reverse banks of the Volga River, had been subjected to a mass drone assault and there was harm to 2 industrial websites. Faculties had shifted to distant studying, he stated.
Ukraine attacked the identical area final week and claimed to have struck an oil depot serving an airbase for Russian nuclear bomber planes, inflicting an enormous hearth that took 5 days to place out.
The impartial Astra information outlet reported a hearth at an industrial website within the metropolis of Kazan, east of Moscow, on account of a drone assault.
Alexander Bogomaz, the governor of the Bryansk area in western Russia, stated Ukraine had launched a significant missile assault however didn’t say which missiles had been used.
Flight restrictions had been imposed at airports in Kazan, Saratov, Penza, Ulyanovsk and Nizhnekamsk, Russia’s aviation watchdog stated.
Nizhnekamsk, in Russia’s republic of Tatarstan, is dwelling to the key Taneco refinery. Shot stated assault sirens had been sounded on the refinery. Reuters was unable to right away confirm the report.
