{"id":586695,"date":"2023-08-12T11:24:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T08:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/russia-downs-20-drones-over-crimea-following-a-spate-of-attacks-on-moscow\/"},"modified":"2023-08-12T11:24:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T08:24:34","slug":"russia-downs-20-drones-over-crimea-following-a-spate-of-attacks-on-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/russia-downs-20-drones-over-crimea-following-a-spate-of-attacks-on-moscow\/","title":{"rendered":"#Russia downs 20 drones over Crimea following a spate of attacks on Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 Russia thwarted an attack by 20 Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow-annexed Crimea overnight, the Russian Defense Ministry said Saturday.<\/p>\n

Fourteen drones were shot down by Russian air defenses and a further six were jammed electronically, the ministry said in a Telegram post. No casualties or damage were reported. Kyiv officials neither confirmed nor denied Ukraine\u2019s involvement in the attacks.<\/p>\n

As videos circulated on Russian social media<\/a> app<\/a>earing to show smoke rising above a bridge linking Russia to Crimea on Saturday, the annexed peninsula\u2019s Moscow-appointed governor, Sergei Aksyonov, reported that Russian air defense had also prevented an attack there by shooting down two Ukrainian missiles.<\/p>\n

The bridge was not damaged, he said, although traffic was briefly halted. An adviser to Aksyonov, Oleg Kryuchkov, claimed that \u201ca smoke screen was put up by special services.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bridge connecting Crimea and Russia carries heavy significance for Moscow, both logistically and psychologically, as a key artery for military and civilian supplies and as an assertion of Kremlin control of the peninsula it illegally annexed in 2014.<\/p>\n

Last week, a Ukrainian sea drone hit a Russian tanker near the bridge, while an attack on the bridge<\/a> last month killed a couple and seriously wounded their daughter, leaving a span of the roadway hanging perilously. The damage appeared to be less severe than that caused by an assault in October<\/a>, but it again highlighted the bridge\u2019s vulnerability.<\/p>\n

The attempted drone and missile attacks follow three consecutive days of drone attacks on the Russian capital, Moscow. Firing drones at Russia, after more than 17 months of war<\/a>, has little apparent military value for Ukraine but the strategy has served to unsettle Russians<\/a> and bring home to them the conflict\u2019s consequences.<\/p>\n

Drone attacks have increased in recent weeks both on Moscow and on Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine<\/a> in 2014 \u2014 a move that most of the world considered illegal.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Russia claimed Saturday it had regained control of the village of Urozhaine in Ukraine\u2019s easternmost Luhansk region in an overnight counterattack.<\/p>\n

A 73-year-old woman was killed early Saturday morning in Russian shelling of Ukraine\u2019s northeastern Kharkiv region, according to regional Gov. Oleh Syniehubov.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian internal affairs minister Ihor Klymenko said a police officer was killed and 12 people wounded when a guided Russian aerial bomb hit the city of Orikhiv in Ukraine\u2019s partially occupied southern Zaporizhzhia region. Four of the wounded were also police officers, he said.<\/p>\n

Local officials said explosions rang out Saturday morning in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s hometown, but that there were no known casualties.<\/p>\n

On Ukraine\u2019s Black Sea coast, the city of Odesa opened several beaches for the first time since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.<\/p>\n

Odesa Gov. Oleh Kiper said that six beaches were open, but he stressed that accessing beaches during air raid alerts was forbidden.<\/p>\n

The strategic port and key hub for exporting grain has been subject to repeated missile and drone attacks<\/a> \u2014 particularly since Moscow canceled a landmark grain deal<\/a> last month amid Kyiv\u2019s grinding efforts to retake its occupied territories \u2014 while Russian mines have regularly washed up on the city\u2019s beaches.<\/p>\n

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