MOSCOW: Ukraine struck Russian areas with a significant drone and missile assault in a single day, damaging factories in not less than three cities, officers and media mentioned.
The Shot Telegram channel mentioned that Russia had downed greater than 200 Ukrainian drones and 5 US-made ATACMS ballistic missiles.
“The enemy has organised a large mixed strike on the territory of the Russian areas,” the Two Majors battle blogger mentioned.
Roman Busargin, governor of the Saratov area about 720km southeast of Moscow, mentioned 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 mentioned.
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 fireplace 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, because of a drone assault.
Alexander Bogomaz, the governor of the Bryansk area in western Russia, mentioned Ukraine had launched a significant missile assault however didn’t say which missiles had been used.
Flight restrictions have been imposed at airports in Kazan, Saratov, Penza, Ulyanovsk and Nizhnekamsk, Russia’s aviation watchdog mentioned.
Nizhnekamsk, in Russia’s republic of Tatarstan, is residence to the key Taneco refinery. Shot mentioned assault sirens have been sounded on the refinery. Reuters was unable to instantly confirm the report.
