Afrigather Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends a gathering with Vice President Kamala Harris within the Vice President’s ceremonial workplace in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, September 26, 2024. In a single day Sunday, his army launched 110 drones at Russia. File Picture by Ting Shen/UPI | License Picture
Oct. 20 (UPI) — The Kremlin mentioned Sunday its air protection programs downed greater than 100 Ukrainian drones in a single day, as Kyiv claims its assaults struck an essential munitions plant and a army airfield in western Russia.
The Kyiv strikes mark considered one of Ukraine’s largest assaults on Russia in the course of the greater than 2 1/2-year struggle.
Moscow’s Ministry of Protection introduced the Ukrainian assault on Telegram, claiming all 110 drones fired by Kyiv had been intercepted and destroyed.
In response to the assertion, 43 had been downed over Kursk, close to northern Ukraine; 27 over Lipetsk; 18 over Oryol; eight over Nizhny Novgorod; seven over Belgorod; six over Bryansk; and one over Moscow.
Gov. Gleb Nikitin of Nizhny Novgorod, positioned about 275 miles due east of Moscow, acknowledged the Kyiv assault focused the state-owned Sverdlov Plant in Dzerzhinsk metropolis.
He mentioned, additionally on Telegram, that 4 hearth division workers of the plant acquired minor shrapnel wounds, had been handled and despatched house.
Whereas Russia claimed that the assault had been thwarted, Ukraine celebrated.
The Normal Workers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine acknowledged that assaults on the army plant and airfield had hit their targets.
“Quite a few explosions” had been reported on the Dzerzhinsk plant and the army airport in Lipetsk, it mentioned, including the outcomes of the strikes had been being clarified.
The Dzerzhinsk plant is beneath U.S. and European Union sanctions. Washington states it produces explosives, industrial chemical substances, detonators and ammunition for the Kremlin military. Kyiv’s army mentioned guided aviation bombs had been additionally saved on the premises.
Targets on the Lipetsk airfield included ammunition depots, gasoline and lubricant storage websites and aviation tools, Kyiv mentioned.
Gov. Igor Artamonov of Lipetsk had broadcast the assault on his area through Telegram and maintained, after it concluded, that no casualties had been reported and “fires that broke out on the bottom after the UAV crash had been shortly extinguished.”
In Oryol, Gov. Andrey Yevgenyevich Klychkov reported no casualties or harm from the assault, and Kursk Gov. Alexei Smirnov warned in regards to the Kyiv strike however made no additional feedback.
In the meantime, Russia attacked Ukraine in a single day, injuring at the very least 17 individuals in central Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine’s state emergency providers mentioned on Fb.
Russia has bombarded Ukraine with missiles and drones because the struggle started Feb. 23, 2022.
Underneath the burden of sanctions and international isolation, Russia has turned to Iran and North Korea to produce its armory. Specifically, the Kremlin has secured drones from Iran, which continues to reject accusations of supplying Russia with weapons.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine mentioned in his Sunday night time tackle to the nation that, to date this yr, Russia has launched some 6,130 Iran-manufactured Shahed drones at Ukraine.
Over Friday night time, 129 drones had been launched by Russia at Ukraine alone, he mentioned.
Zelensky added that Ukraine manages to shoot down lots of them with its digital warfare programs, however “we’d like the aptitude to destroy not solely the storage bases for the Shaheds but in addition all the infrastructure for his or her manufacturing and logistics.”
“Sadly, terrorists know the way to make the most of the time that the free world’s indecision offers them,” he mentioned.
