Russian government has alleged that Ukraine launched drone attacks across its several regions, striking two residential houses in the Tambov region and injuring no fewer than three people.
The regional head, Evgeny Pervyshov, who disclosed this on Saturday via Telegram messaging app, said people were treated for injuries resulting from shattered windows as drones hit two houses in the town of Kotovsk, about 480 kilometres southeast of Moscow.
Pervyshov said the buildings were only slightly damaged, adding that the inhabitants were offered temporary housing, and an evacuation was not required.
“Three people had cuts from fragments of broken windows, another four complained of high blood pressure,” he said.
In another development, Russia’s defence ministry said it intercepted and destroyed 85 Ukrainian drones overnight in several regions of the country, including 31 drones over the Black Sea, 16 each in the Voronezh and Krasnodar regions and 14 over the Azov Sea.
Russia’s aviation watchdog, Rosaviatsia, said airports in the cities of Kazan, Nizhnekamsk and Ulyanovsk in the Volga River regions temporarily suspended flights.
Kyiv’s air force, in a statement early on Saturday, said that Russia launched 74 drones at Ukraine overnight, adding that it had downed 47 of them while 27 others disappeared from radars without reaching their targets.
