On the night of July 14, in the city of Kurchatov, Kursk region, an explosion occurred from the fall of a drone. An aircraft-type kamikaze drone fell about 4 km from the Kursk nuclear power plant, the Shot telegram channel notes . According to preliminary data, it was shot down by an air defense system, and the wreckage of the drone fell into the Kursk reservoir.
“Fortunately, none of the residents were injured. Critical facilities were not damaged as a result of the fall of the drone and its subsequent detonation, ” said Roman Starovoit, Governor of the Kursk Region, on his Telegram channel.
According to him, the apartment building received partial damage – its facade was cut and the glazing was broken. The blast wave knocked out windows in eight apartments of a residential building, Shot specified. The military immediately cordoned off the area where the downed drone fell and asked local residents to return to their homes, eyewitnesses of the incident told Caution News.
Also this night, a few kilometers from Voronezh, air defense systems shot down three drones, the Baza telegram channel writes . “There are no casualties, injuries or damage. I keep the situation under control,” said Alexander Gusev, Governor of the Voronezh Region.
Kamikaze drones were shot down near the Maslovsky state farm, and their target could be the Baltimore military airfield, which had previously been attacked by drones, writes Shot .
The day before, a Ukrainian drone attacked a plant producing dry rations, canned food and dairy products for the Russian army in Starodub, Bryansk region. As a result of the attack, the slate roof of the workshop was damaged, and there were no victims or injured.
Ukraine continues to strike drones on military targets in Russia. Before the start of the counter-offensive in June, the Armed Forces of Ukraine blew up an oil depot in Sevastopol, and also attacked oil refineries in the Rostov region and the Krasnodar Territory. Moreover, refineries in the Krasnodar Territory were attacked twice .
Also, over the past two months, Ukrainian drones have hit a military training ground near Voronezh, tried to attack the Taman division in the Moscow region and a military unit in Kubinka. In addition, raids were made on the airfield and oil depot in the Kursk region, as well as on an electrical substation in the Kursk region.
The most massive drone attack took place a few days before the Ukrainian counteroffensive – on May 30, several dozen drones raided the Moscow region and Moscow. Then several residential buildings in New Moscow and in the south-west of the capital were damaged, two people were injured.
Source : MOSCOWTIMES
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