Ukrainian drone attacks against Russia continue, officials say
Ukrainian drone attacks against Russian regions are continuing Wednesday, with Russian officials reporting attacks on an oil refinery in Ryazan and apartment buildings in Belgorod.
Russia’s Ministry of Defense said air defense systems shot down 65 drones (widely described as UAVs, or unmanned aerial vehicles) over Russian territory.
“During the past night and the morning of March 13, attempts by the Kyiv regime to carry out terrorist attacks using aircraft-type UAVs against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation were stopped,” the ministry said on Telegram on Wednesday.
“In total, air defense forces intercepted and destroyed 65 drones: 29 in the Voronezh region, 11 in the Belgorod region, eight each in the Bryansk and Kursk regions, and one each in the Leningrad and Ryazan regions,” the ministry added.
Three people were injured during an attack by Ukrainian drones on an oil refinery in Ryazan and the facility had been set on fire, the emergency services told news agency RIA Novosti.
Pavel Malkov, the governor of Ryazan, said the refinery had been attacked by a drone. He posted on Telegram Wednesday morning that the fire at the Ryazan oil refinery “has been extinguished” and that “people’s lives are not in danger,” although he confirmed that several people were injured.
A red dawn illuminates cracking towers at the Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez (NORSI) oil refinery, operated by OAO Lukoil, in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
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Meanwhile, Belgorod Mayor Valentin Demidov said on Telegram that windows in nine apartments in the city were damaged because of an attack by the Ukrainian armed forces, but no casualties were reported.
CNBC was unable to immediately verify the reports and Ukraine rarely comments on attacks against Russian territory. There has been a notable increase in drone attacks against Russian regions, particularly those on the border with Ukraine, and energy…
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