The Ukrainian army announced that it had shot down 38 drones out of 42 launched by the Russian army in several regions of its territory.
Russian troops launched a drone attack on Ukrainian territory on the night of March 6. According to the Ukrainian military, a total of 42 drones were launched from the Krasnodar region, the Kursk region and annexed Crimea, and 38 of them were shot down.
The drones were destroyed over the Dnipropetrovsk, Odessa, Kherson, Khmelnitsky, Cherkasy, Kharkiv, Vinnitsa and Sumy regions, according to the AFU Air Force command.
According to UNIAN, the air alert due to the drone attack remained in effect for five hours. The authorities of the Sumy region reported “three arrivals” in the regional center, which caused victims, without specifying the details.
Russian troops launch attack drones into Ukrainian territory daily. The objective of these attacks, as military experts have pointed out, is in particular to put a strain on the air defense system, forcing it to waste precious shells on drones.
On the night of March 2, in Odessa, a Russian drone struck a nine-story apartment building, destroying one of the entrances. Twelve people died, including five children.
Officials in three Russian regions reported drone attacks during the night and morning of March 6. So, the governor of the Voronezh region, Alexander Gusev, said that three drones were shot down over his region. There were no casualties, according to the governor.
The newspaper “Baza” writes that one of the drones in the Voronezh region was shot down while approaching the Baltimore military airfield, and that two other drones attempted to attack an oil depot in the municipal district of Anninsky, in the region
In the Kursk region, the head of the region, Roman Starovoit, said that a drone hit a fuel and lubricants depot in the Zheleznogorsk district. A fuel tank caught fire. The people were not injured, the governor said. Baza specifies that the fuel tank, which was hit by the drone, is on the territory of the Mikhailovsky mining and processing plant in Zheleznogorsk.
