Ukrainian drones reach deep inside Russia as battle for key city rages on
Ukrainian long range drones An industrial facility about 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) inside Russia was attacked, local officials said Tuesday, while the Ukrainian military remained locked in an intense battle to retreat. a Russian edition in the important city of Pokrovsk eastern Donetsk region.
Regional Governor Radiy Khabirov said in a statement online that two unmanned aerial vehicles targeted an industrial facility in Sterlitamak, a city in Russia’s Bashkortostan region. He did not specify which facility was targeted but said both drones were shot down. He stated that there was no loss of life and that the facility was operating normally.
Meanwhile, the municipal administration reported that the explosion at the Sterlitamak Petrochemical Plant caused the partial collapse of the plant’s water treatment plant. He stated that the cause of the explosion was unknown. It is not known that the facility that produces rubber and aviation fuel has been attacked before.
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Explosions were also heard in an industrial zone in the Nizhny Novgorod region, about 800 kilometers (500 miles) from Ukraine, where an oil refinery and a petrochemical plant are located, according to Russian media reports. Authorities did not confirm the news.
Both Bashkortostan and Nizhny Novgorod are among the regions where the Russian Defense Ministry claimed Tuesday that Ukrainian drones were shot down and 85 drones were intercepted overnight.
Ukrainian officials said that Russia bombed Ukraine’s southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region with unmanned aerial vehicles, missiles and artillery throughout the night, killing one person and wounding 11 people, including two children.
Ukraine’s air force said Russia fired 7 missiles of various types and 130 attack and decoy drones at Ukraine overnight.
Separately, the Romanian Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday that Russia carried out two overnight attacks on Ukraine’s Danube port infrastructure near the NATO member nation’s border.
The ministry said two pairs of fighter jets were deployed separately from two different air bases for air policing duties after “numerous explosions were observed off the coast of Ukraine”.
On the battlefield, Russia and Ukraine are fiercely fighting over control of Pokrovsk, a Ukrainian stronghold in the Donetsk region that Moscow forces have been trying to capture for more than a year.
Russia has intensified its efforts in the region in recent months and claimed its troops were making progress.
“Russian forces continue to advance in the direction of Pokrovsk and appear to be operating increasingly comfortably inside Pokrovsk,” the Institute for the Study of War, a think tank in Washington, said in a statement late Monday.
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