Ukraine destroys 16 Russian drones and returns the offensive in the Kursk and Voronezh regions

Ukrainian air defenses have intercepted 16 of a total of 17 kamikaze drones Shahed of Iranian manufacture, launched in the last hours by Russia against the territory of Ukraine. “From the evening of July 13 to 4 a.m. on the 14th, the ‘Russists’ attacked Ukraine with 17 Iranian-made Shahed-136/131 attack drones from the southeast,” the Ukrainian Air Force said in a statement. .

The note adds that 16 of these drones were shot down by the Ukrainian Air Force in various oblasts in southern and eastern Ukraine. Six of the Shahed were shot down in the Krivi Rig oblast (southeast), where one of the unmanned devices launched by Russia could not be intercepted and destroyed an administrative building of a municipal company. A 56-year-old man was injured.

Russia also put a reconnaissance drone into orbit in Ukrainian airspace last night which was also shot down by Ukrainian forces. During yesterday, Ukraine destroyed another six Russian drones launched to collect information.

For his part, Russian authorities have denounced Ukrainian drone attacks against the Kursk and Voronezh regions.

In Voronezh, the attack was carried out against the homonymous regional capital, some 520 kilometers south of Moscow, as reported by the local governor, Aleksandr Gusev. He wrote on Telegram that the city’s anti-aircraft defenses detected three drones a few kilometers from the capital and destroyed them, without causing casualties or damage.

Another unmanned device fell last night in the city of Kurchatov, in the Kursk region, bordering Ukraine. “At night, in the city of Kurchatov, a drone crashed. Fortunately, no one was hurt.“, the governor of Kursk, Román Starovoit, wrote on social networks, adding that a residential building shows some damage as a result of the attack. According to the Telegram channel Shot, the drone crashed four kilometers from the Kursk nuclear power plant.