Russian forces have thwarted new nighttime attacks by Ukrainian drones in the Tula and Belgorod regions (west), Moscow said on Tuesday morning August 29. Two “unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed by air defense on duty over the territory of the Tula region”, located south of the Moscow region with which it borders, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Telegram.
Another aircraft was also shot down in the Russian region of Belgorod, bordering Ukraine, on Monday around 11 p.m. local time (10 p.m. in Paris), the same source said earlier on Tuesday. The ministry did not release any information about any injuries or damage.
Drone attacks against Russian territory and the Crimean peninsula annexed in 2014 have become almost daily in recent weeks, targeting the Russian capital in particular, against the backdrop of a Kiev counter-offensive that began in early June. On Monday, Russia claimed to have foiled nighttime drone attacks in the Moscow and Bryansk regions (west). Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed in late July that “war is coming to Russian territory”.
