2023-08-01 14:35:00
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine continues. Photo: AFP.
Russia claimed to have repelled a drone attack attacks against Russian patrol ships in the Black Sea, hours after denouncing another bombardment against Moscow by drones sent by Ukraine that hit the same building damaged by another drone days ago.
The Russian government says the wave of attacks against Russia’s capital region reflects Ukraine’s “desperation” at the failure of a counter-offensive launched in June to try to retake Ukrainian territories occupied by Russia since its February 2022 invasion.
From the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky said over the weekend, however, that “the war is returning gradually to Russian territory”, although he stopped short of claiming responsibility for the drone strikes.
In Ukraine, the governor of the eastern Kharkov province said Russia attacked the provincial capital Kharkov on Monday night with several drones, including one that hit a three-story residential building inside an educational institution.
In Ukraine, the governor of the eastern Kharkov province said Russia attacked the provincial capital Kharkov with several drones on Monday night.
The drone destroyed the top two floors and the roof, although there were no people in the building at the time, Governor Oleg Siniehubov said.
Three more drones fell on a sports complex and partially damaged a two-story building, the governor said, adding that a security guard was injured in that attack, Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform reported.
Russian forces shelled the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson for the second day in a row, hitting a medical facility, killing a doctor and injuring a nurse, Kherson province governor Roman Mrochko said.
In Russia, the Defense Ministry said it shot down two drones on the outskirts of Moscow in the early hours of the morning and disabled another that crashed into a skyscraper in the commercial district of the Russian capital, damaging the facade of the building, where the headquarters of various ministries are located.
Photo: AFP.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the drone hit the same building that had been damaged in a similar attack last Sunday.
The building, known as IQ-Quarter, is located about 7 kilometers from the Kremlin and houses several official bodies, including the Ministry of Economic Development and Communications and the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
The attack left no casualties, Sobyanin said.
Asked about how protected the Russian capital is, the Russian president’s spokesman, Vladimir Putin, referred the question to the Defense Ministry.
“The threat exists and measures are being taken,” the spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, said.
Sobyanin said that the drone hit the 21st floor of the building.
Photos of the skyscraper showed glass panes missing from several windows.
Photo: AFP.
An official at the Ministry of Economic Development told Russian news agency Interfax that ministry staff did remote work while the damage to the offices was assessed.
Mikhailo Podoliak, an adviser to Zelensky, said on the X social network that Moscow “is quickly getting used to the war, that it will soon move to the territory of the ‘authors of the war’ to collect all its debts”, although he did not claim responsibility. stroke.
Besides, the Russian Army claimed to have repelled an attack by three drones naval forces against their patrol boats in the Black Sea on Monday night. The area has been under tension since Russia withdrew from the cereal export agreement last month. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, all three aircraft were destroyed.
The attacks on the Russian capital and its surroundings have multiplied since the beginning of the year, and in May one of them even reached the Kremlin.
There were also several attacks against the Crimean peninsula, annexed in 2014 by Russia, which affected key bridges for the supply of Russian forces fighting against Ukraine.
The attacks in Belgorod are part of the counter-offensive launched in June by Ukraine, with weapons supplied by NATO countries, to recover the territories occupied by Russia.
In the Russian region of Belgorod, neighboring Ukraine, the governor said that the area was again attacked with artillery by the Ukrainian Army.
The attacks in Belgorod are part of the counteroffensive launched in June by Ukraine, with weapons supplied by NATO countries, to recapture the territories occupied by Russia.
But progress so far has been very slow because the Ukrainian army is facing Russian defensive lines, made up of trenches, anti-tank traps and minefields.
President Putin has called the Ukrainian offensive a failure.
On Monday, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Russia continues to intensify its shelling and early Monday morning Krivoy Rog, the Ukrainian president’s hometown in the center of the country, was hit by two Russian missiles.
One of them destroyed part of a building and killed six people, including a 10-year-old girl and her mother, in addition to injuring 75.
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