2024-08-14 08:49:50
Last night, Russian air defense systems shot down a total of four IMO missiles and 117 drones on the territory of the country, the Ministry of Defense of Russia reported this Wednesday on its Telegram channel. According to the military report, the four Imo missiles, known as Tochka-U, manufactured in Ukraine, They destroyed the Kursk region, where 6 Ukrainian troops launched an attack that continues to this day.
On the territory of the same region, 37 drones were shot down last night, Defense said, adding that an equal number of unmanned aerial devices were destroyed over Voronezh region.
The territory of Ukraine’s airstrikes is not limited to these four regions bordering Ukraine. According to the Russian military, Ukrainian drones were also shot down in the regions of Nizhny Novgorod (11), Volgograd (9), Oryol (2) and Rostov (1).
State of emergency in Belgorod
Meanwhile, the governor of the Russian region of Belgorod, Viacheslav Gladkov, today declared a state of emergency throughout his region, which ends in the Kursk region, where Ukrainian troops have been waging an offensive since the last 6 days. “The situation in the Belgorod region is still very difficult and difficult. Daily looting by the Ukrainian Army, destroyed houses, injured and killed civilians“Gladkov said in a video published on his Telegram channel.
Therefore, he explained, “to further protect the population and provide additional support to the victims, we have decided to declare a state of emergency in Belgorod starting today.” The governor added that he would ask the Russian Government to declare the region a state of emergency at the federal level.
In the region of Belgorod, as in the regions of Kursk and Bryansk, all of which are located on the border of Ukraine, the “operational control of terrorism” carried out by the federal authorities has been in force since Friday. Russia’s military command has announced sending reinforcements to the Kursk region to counter the Ukrainian offensive, the first attack by ground forces on Russian territory in nearly two and a half years of war.
According to kyiv, in only eight days the Ukrainian army has taken control of more than 1,000 square kilometers of the territory of the Kursk region. The spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Georgy Tiji, said this Tuesday that “Unlike Russia, Ukraine does not need foreign territories. Ukraine is not interested in accepting the territory of the Kursk region.”
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