Russian Forces Destroy 144 Ukrainian Drones Over 9 Regions
Building hit by a Ukrainian drone in Moscow, Russia, Sept. 10, 2024. X/ @emmanuelomenejo
September 10, 2024 Hour: 7:26 am
One woman has died, three people have been hospitalized, and 43 people have been placed in temporary housing centers.
On Tuesday, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that its forces have intercepted and destroyed 144 Ukrainian drones across nine of the country’s regions.
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Seventy-two drones were destroyed over the Bryansk region, 20 over the Moscow region, and 14 over Russia’s Kursk region. Overnight, apartment buildings in the Ramenskoye district of the Moscow region had been damaged as a result of a drone attack, according to Moscow region governor Andrey Vorobyev.
According to preliminary information, one woman has died, three people have been hospitalized, and 43 people have been placed in temporary housing centers following the attack.
The defense ministry added that 13 drones were destroyed over the Tula region, eight over the Belgorod region, seven over the Kaluga region, five over the Voronezh region, four over the Lipetsk region, and one over the Oryol region.
Nevertheless, fragments of a Ukrainian drone hit the territory of Zhukovsky airport, 40 kilometers from the Russian capital. “There have been no casualties. No damage has been detected on the runways,” airport sources told TASS.
This airport, the smallest of the four located outside Moscow, had already suspended its activities when the enemy drone tried to attack its facilities. The drone attack also forced the closure of the international airports of Domodedovo and Vnukovo, which are located in the Moscow region.
On Tuesday, the Russian Defense Ministry also reported that its troops liberated four towns in the Donetsk region, namely Kranogorivka, Vodiane, Galitsinivka, and Grigorivka.
The first three are located 30-40 kilometers southeast of Pokrovsk, a city located at a strategic road junction that has become one of the priority targets of the Russian offensive on the eastern front. Grigorivka is only 22 kilometers southeast of the city of Kramatorsk, Ukraine’s second largest stronghold in the Donetsk region.
Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu said that Ukraine tried to stop the Russian offensive on the eastern front with the attack it launched just over a month ago in the Kursk region, hoping that the Russian command would withdraw units from Donbas to repel the Ukrainian incursion.
“But thank God this did not happen; we have enough forces, the troops continue to advance,” he said, adding that the Ukrainian army loses an average of 28 square kilometers of territory on the eastern front every day and has about 2,000 casualties between dead and wounded.
teleSUR/ JF Source: Xinhua
