A new offensive orchestrated by kyiv in Russia. Moscow said it shot down a Ukrainian drone off the annexed Crimean peninsula on September 4, as well as a second device in the Russian region of Kursk, bordering Ukraine.
On Monday around 1 a.m. local time (Sunday around midnight in Paris), “Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the air over the Black Sea near the Crimean peninsula and over the territory of the region of Kursk by the air defense systems in service, “communicated the Russian Ministry of Defense on Telegram, which counted two machines in total.
Drone attacks against Russian territory and the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Moscow in 2014, have increased in recent weeks. kyiv, which began a counter-offensive at the beginning of June to retake the territories conquered by Russia, has repeatedly announced its intention to recover Crimea.
Moscow had notably claimed to have shot down in the Black Sea early Saturday three Ukrainian naval drones which targeted the Crimean Bridge, a strategic structure in the Kerch Strait already targeted during the summer. As for the Kursk region, Governor Roman Starovoyt said on Friday that “two Ukrainian drones” had targeted the city of Kurchatov, damaging an administrative building and a residential building.
