MORE THAN 140 UKRAINIAN DRONES TARGET RUSSIA

Tue 10 September 2024:

A woman has been killed near Moscow after the remnants of a downed Ukrainian drone hit the apartment block where she was living and started a fire, according to Russian officials.

Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its air defences shot down 144 Ukrainian drones overnight in nine regions, with 20 alone over the Moscow region.

The deadly drone attack on Russia’s Moscow region prompted the authorities to temporarily shut down three airports just outside the capital – Vnukovo, Domodedovo and Zhukovsky.

A total of 48 flights were diverted to other airports, according to Russia’s civil aviation authority, Rosaviatsia.

Ukrainian drone attacks hit high-rise apartment buildings in the Ramenskoye district near Moscow, Moscow’s governor Andrei Vorobyov said on September 10.

A 46-year-old woman was killed, and three others were injured in the attacks pic.twitter.com/wUxTypeYad

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Russia claims to have shot down 20 Ukrainian drones over Moscow

Russia has said it destroyed at least 20 Ukrainian attack drones as they swarmed over the Moscow region, which has a population of more than 21 million.

The country’s defence ministry said its forces downed 124 more drones over eight other regions, including more than 70 over the Bryansk region. There was no damage or casualties reported there.

The war that began in February 2022 when Russian President Vladimir Putin sent his troops into neighbouring Ukraine has mostly been a grinding artillery and drone war along the 1,000km (620-mile) heavily fortified front line in southern and eastern Ukraine involving hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

Moscow and Kyiv have both sought to buy and develop new drones, deploy them in innovative ways and seek new ways to destroy them – from shotguns to advanced electronic jamming systems.

Both sides have turned cheap commercial drones into deadly weapons while ramping up their own production and assembly to attack targets including tanks, energy infrastructure such as refineries, and airfields.

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Moscow region attack shows Ukraine is Russia’s enemy: Kremlin

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says a large-scale drone attack on the Moscow region shows that Russia needs to keep fighting Ukraine.

He said as long as Ukrainian troops remain present in Russia’s Kursk region, Moscow cannot envision any negotiations with Kyiv and will continue what it calls its special military operation.

Russia captured town, three villages in eastern Ukraine: Defence Ministry

Russia’s Defence Ministry says its forces have captured the town of Krasnohorivka in eastern Ukraine as well as three villages in different parts of the Donetsk region.

Using the Russian names for all four settlements, the ministry said Russian troops had “liberated” Krasnogorivka (Krasnohorivka in Ukrainian) and the villages of Grygorivka (Hryhorivka), Galytsynivka (Halytsynivka) and Vodiane (Vodyane).

Krasnohorivka, which had a population before the conflict of 16,000, is in an area where the front line has remained relatively unchanged for weeks.

The town lies about 20km (32 miles) west of Russian-held Donetsk and had served as a key stronghold for Kyiv. It became more vulnerable after the fall of nearby Marinka in December 2023 and Avdiivka in February 2024.

Russian troops have been advancing steadily in the Donetsk region in recent weeks and are closing in on the town of Pokrovsk, a vital logistics and transport hub for Ukrainian forces.

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