Russia fired more than 150 missiles and drones at several Ukrainian cities on Friday, killing at least 30 people and injuring more than 160 others. Russian air defenses shot down 32 Ukrainian drones today in the Moscow, Bryansk, Kursk and Orlov regions, the Defense Ministry reported. Ukraine used fixed-wing drones to hit Russian territory, in what the military statement called a "terrorist attack" A Ukrainian attack on a residential building left one dead in Belgorod, Russia, the governor of this province bordering Ukraine announced Friday night.
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The head of Ukraine's military intelligence said Friday that the drone attack on Pskov airport in the early hours of Wednesday was carried out from Russian territory. In the attack four Russian IL-76 military transport planes were hit, two of them destroyed and the other two badly damaged. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said his air defense had intercepted a drone heading to the capital without causing damage or casualties. Two Ukrainian drones have attacked early in the Russian town of Kurchatov, home to a nuclear power plant in the Kursk region.
A man has been hospitalized and a woman was treated at the scene for fragments of a downed drone that fell on a house. Russia announced in the morning that it had foiled two Ukrainian drone strikes near the capital. Four drone strikes on Moscow have been repelled this month, and two drones caused minor damage to high-rise buildings in the commercial development of the city. Ukraine generally does not comment on who is behind the attacks on Russian soil, although officials have publicly expressed satisfaction over them.
Russia said on Friday it had destroyed Ukrainian aerial and naval drones in Moscow and the Black Sea. The mayor of the Russian capital, Sergei Sobyanin, explained that "air defense forces destroyed a drone in Moscow" The drone's casing fell in the area of the Exhibition Center and did not cause significant damage to the building, he said. Russian state news agency TASS reported that, according to emergency services, one of the walls of the pavilion had partially collapsed. The Russian Defense Ministry said it had thwarted a naval drone attack on its fleet.