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Russia said it repelled Ukrainian drone attacks over several parts of Crimea, outer Moscow and two border regions on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Crimea has been targeted by Ukraine throughout Russia’s offensive but attacks there have recently intensified as Kyiv vows to recapture the Black Sea peninsula, which Moscow annexed in 2014.<\/p>\n
And since Ukraine launched its counter-offensive in early June, Russia has weathered waves of drone attacks that have sporadically damaged buildings, including in the capital Moscow.<\/p>\n
Russian officials have downplayed their significance.<\/p>\n
“Drones were intercepted over the western, southwestern, northwestern and eastern parts of the Crimean peninsula; Istra and Domodedovo districts of Moscow region, Belgorod and Voronezh regions,” Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Telegram in the round-up of Sunday’s attacks.<\/p>\n
The drones “have been thwarted,” it added.<\/p>\n
Most of the attacks were early Sunday.<\/p>\n
Late Sunday, three drones were destroyed over southwestern Crimea, as was a solitary drone over the Belgorod border region, Defense Ministry updates said.<\/p>\n
The Telegram updates throughout the day totalled 13 drones destroyed, including nine over Crimea.<\/p>\n
They did not say whether there had been any casualties or damage in the attacks.<\/p>\n
In their Sunday round-up, the Russian ministry claimed that production workshops at a military vehicle repairs plant in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv had been hit.<\/p>\n
The buildings, “where the repair and restoration of armored vehicles of the armed forces of Ukraine were carried out, were hit by a missile strike,” it said.<\/p>\n
Kharkiv regional governor Oleg Synegubov had said earlier in his own Sunday round-up that shortly after midnight, Russia “launched a missile attack on the city of Kharkiv,” but claimed it was a civilian business that had been hit.<\/p>\n
“Missiles hit the building of a civilian enterprise. There was a fire,” he said on Telegram.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n