Russian defence ministry says 20 Ukrainian drones had been shot down and electronically suppressed in early morning assault.
Russia’s defence ministry stated its forces destroyed a wave of 20 Ukrainian drones over the Russian-annexed Crimean Peninsula.
There have been no casualties and no injury on account of the tried assault early on Saturday morning, the defence ministry stated on the Telegram messaging app.
Fourteen drones had been destroyed by air defence methods and 6 had been suppressed by digital warfare, the ministry stated.
It was not instantly clear what was the goal of the reported assaults on the peninsula.
Sergei Kryuchkov, an adviser to the Russia-installed governor of Crimea, stated earlier that air defence methods had been engaged in repelling air assaults in several components of the peninsula.
Crimea transport authorities stated on their Telegram channel that visitors on the Crimean Bridge, which hyperlinks the Black Sea peninsula with the Russian area of Krasnodar, was suspended for about two hours from 01:30am native time (22:30 GMT on Friday).
The reported assault on Crimea is just the latest use by Ukraine of armed drones targeting deep inside Russia and Russian-controlled territory, although Ukraine nearly by no means publicly claims duty for such operations.
On Friday, Russian officers stated that Ukrainian drones were shot down while attempting to attack Moscow – the third straight day of makes an attempt to hit targets within the Russian capital, whereas Russian missiles killed an 8-year-old boy in Western Ukraine on the identical day.
The missile that killed the boy struck a home in Ukraine’s Ivano-Frankivsk area, about 100km (60 miles) from the Polish border, in response to the workplace of Ukraine’s prosecutor normal.
The drone that was shot down close to Moscow on Friday plunged onto the Karamyshevskaya Embankment, officers stated, which is about 5km (3 miles) from a Moscow enterprise district that was hit twice in earlier drone incidents.
Studies of drones within the space disrupted flights at two Russian airports on Friday.
Flights later resumed at Vnukovo airport, one among Moscow’s busiest, and at Kaluga airport, southwest of town. It was the third day in a row that Vnukovo airport halted flights as a result of drone assaults.