The Russian and Ukrainian governments on Wednesday made conflicting claims about drone assaults on one another’s cities.
Moscow claimed that in a single day assaults on the airport within the Pskov area broken 4 planes, two of which have been burned, whereas Kyiv claimed that the Russian intense assault killed two civilians and injured one other.
Pskov Governor Mikhail Vedernikov and Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin each acknowledged on X, previously often called Twitter, that the Ukraine drone assault on Pskov airport is being investigated. However, there have been no casualties within the in a single day strike, they added.
According to Russia’s Tass news company, emergency providers confirmed that 4 Il-76-type plane have been broken and two have been burned.
In a separate assertion, the Russian Defense Ministry stated three Ukrainian drones have been shot down by air protection techniques at 2 a.m. native time (2300GMT Monday) within the Bryansk, Oryol, and Kaluga areas.
It additionally acknowledged that the air protection techniques prevented Kyiv’s assault through unmanned aerial automobile (UAV) at about 2.00 a.m. (2300GMT Monday) within the Ryazan area, one other at 3.30 a.m. (0030GMT) in Moscow’s Ruzskiy district, and one other at 4.00 a.m. (0100GMT) within the Ryazan area.
Another assertion from the ministry claimed that Russian Black Sea Fleet naval aviation plane destroyed 4 Ukrainian quick army boats carrying 50 particular operations troopers.
Meanwhile, the top of the Kyiv City Military Administration, Sergey Popko, acknowledged on X that Russia launched an intense airstrike in a single day. “Kyiv has not seen such a powerful attack since the spring. The enemy carried out a massive attack using UAVs and missiles,” he added.
According to him, Ukrainian forces responded by destroying Russian drones. However, two folks have been killed and one other was injured on account of UAV and missile fragments falling into non-residential buildings and beginning fires, which the crews extinguished.
Source: www.anews.com.tr