MOSCOW, June 22 (DPA/EP) –
At least one person has died and almost a dozen others have been injured as a result of the latest drone attacks carried out this Friday by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in southern Russia and the Crimean peninsula, Russian authorities have reported.
Two people have been injured during an attack on an oil refinery in the Krasnodar region, which resulted in a fire, which has now been extinguished according to the regional crisis response center.
Another attack with drones over the region has affected an industrial plant in the same city, as well as a bus station located in the city of Yuzhni. Consequently, a worker at the facility has lost his life and at least four other people have suffered injuries of varying degrees due to falling debris from the drone.
Local media have also reported that the facilities of the local air base in the city of Yeisk, used by the Russian Army to launch air strikes against Ukraine, have burned.
Likewise, the presence of drones has been reported over the city of Afipski, near Krasnodar, where there is another refinery.
The Ukrainian General Staff has reported, and this has been reported by the German news agency dpa, that the target of the aforementioned attacks were, in fact, refineries in Yeisk, Afipsky, Krasnodar and Astrakhan, and also its arsenal, which included drones. Russian combat.
In total, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, up to 114 Ukrainian drones have been shot down in combined attacks, 70 of them over Crimea and the Sea of Azov.
In particular, these drones targeted the port city of Sevastopol in Crimea. However, regional governor Mikhail Razvozhayev has assured that they have been “successfully destroyed.”
Several Ukrainian remote-controlled boats loaded with explosives have also been destroyed, according to Russian sources, although this information has not been able to be independently corroborated.
Similarly, Russian air defense forces shot down a drone over the southern Volgograd region and intercepted two other unmanned aerial vehicles in the Surazhsky district of the Bryansk region.
For its part, Russia has launched four cruise missiles against Ukrainian soil, all of them intercepted, according to the Ukrainian Air Force.
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