July 17 – Russian air defence units downed three Ukrainian drones headed for Moscow early on Thursday, the capital’s mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Telegram.
Sobyanin made no mention of casualties or damage. He said specialists were examining drone fragments at the sites where they hit the ground.
Air defences were in action in other parts of Russia.
A Ukrainian drone attack killed one person and injured six in Russia’s southern city of Belgorod, regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said.
Gladkov said all six injured were being treated in hospital for shrapnel wounds. Six homes suffered damage.
Gladkov later reported another drone had injured a resident of a village northeast of Belgorod.
Russia’s Defence Ministry said Russian air defence units had destroyed 48 Ukrainian drones over a 3-1/2-hour period ending at 11.30 p.m. (2030 GMT).
Twenty-nine of the drones were destroyed over Belgorod region on the Ukrainian border, with a further 16 over Bryansk region, another border region to the west.
The governor of Voronezh region, also on the border, said several Ukrainian drones had been downed and the governor of Smolensk region in western Russia said air defences had downed one drone. One person was injured.
REUTERS
