The Russian Ministry of Defense has reported that two Ukrainian drones were shot down on Aug. 28 over Belgorod Oblast. The incident could not be independently verified.
Explosions were heard in Moscow and the surrounding region during the night of August 21-22 as the Russian capital appeared to suffer yet another drone attack.
about what they think this could be, and they re pointing to this, the characteristics of a larger rear wing and a smaller front wing, and look at this, they say it all points to this, a ukrainian made long range device, it s quite due, reportedly has a range of up to 1000 kilometres, so potentially could have been fired within ukrainian territory towards the russian capital. it s worth pointing out that ukraine has not claimed responsibility for this and we don t know where the drone in question was deployed from. what we re doing at bbc verify is trying to get a sense of the wider picture here. i want to show you this map because what we have done is we ve been looking at russian media reports of drone strikes within russia russian controlled territory this year, so if we go to our map here, we see a spate of attacks in the capital moscow. also on the border and edging towards belarus there, around the kharkiv region of ukraine, so over the border, striking russian targets, and also