This is the dramatic moment Russia shoots down 26 drones over Crimea as Putin‘s Kremlin accuses Ukraine of staging an assault on the annexed peninsula.
Russia said on Friday that it had thwarted a series of Ukrainian drone attacks in two border regions.
Over a two-hour period, 26 drones were shot down over the Crimea peninsula annexed from Ukraine in 2014, the defence ministry said in a statement, without saying if there were any victims or if any damage was sustained.
A ministry statement said the interceptions took place between 8.30pm and 10.30pm local time.
Earlier, the ministry said in posts on Telegram that six drones targeting ‘installations on Russian territory’ were shot down in the Kursk region, again without providing further details.
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