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| Moscow comes under 'massive' drone attack |
| 2025-03-12 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Russia has been bombarded in the biggest Ukrainian drone attack of the war, Moscow officials have said, on the same day as crunch talks are set to be held between Kyiv and the United States. The Russian Defence Ministry said air defences shot down 337 Ukrainian drones over 10 Russian regions overnight, a record high, as Ukraine hit back at a series of brutal recent attacks launched by Moscow. At least one Russian civilian has been killed and several injured, with dramatic footage showing fires raging from the exploding drones including in high rise residential buildings near Moscow. The attack came as a Ukrainian delegation was set to meet with America's top diplomat Marco Rubio in Saudi Arabia about ending the three-year war with Russia. Volodymyr Zelensky, who was in Jeddah for talks with the Saudi Crown Prince yesterday, will not stay for today's meeting, which marks a new diplomatic push after the Ukrainian President's explosive row with Donald Trump last week. There has been no immediate comment from Kyiv on the strikes which shook Moscow and other Russian regions overnight. The most drones - 126 - were shot down over Kursk across the border from Ukraine, parts of which Kyiv's forces control, while 91 were shot down over the Moscow region. Other areas impacted by the strikes included Belgorod, Bryansk and Voronezh on the border with Ukraine and those deeper inside Russia, such as Kaluga, Lipetsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Oryol and Ryazan. Earlier, Ukraine made a rare deployment of US-supplied HIMARS missiles against Russian territory at Dobrynya shopping centre in Belaya Sloboda, Kursk region, where four people were reported killed and 10 injured, including several teenagers. One drone exploded in Kurchatov, a town close to the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, seen on footage and leading to a small fire. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said over 70 drones targeted the Russian capital and were shot down as they were flying toward it. Drones were shot down in the Ramensky and Domodedovo districts of the Moscow region surrounding the Russian capital, he said on the messaging app Telegram. Twenty people - including two children - were injured during the attack by drones flying to Moscow, in Vidnoye, Ramenskoye and Domodedovo, said reports. Hundreds of people were also forced to evacuate their homes as the drones rained down. The governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov, said one person was killed and three more wounded as a result of the drone attack. The attack damaged seven apartments in a residential building in the Ramensky district, he said. It also set cars on fire in a parking lot in the Domodedovo district, according to Russian state news agencies RIA Novosti and Tass. Mash news outlet said Ukraine had used AN-196 Liutyi domestically-made drones as the mainstay of the overnight strikes. A resident on Domodedovskaya Street in Moscow said she heard the drone - 'the sound of a moped - and it crashes into the house, there's an orange flash and that's it'. A key focus of the Ukrainian strikes was Kursk region, where thousands of Kyiv's troops risk being surrounded by Russian forces backed by North Korean fighters. Other regions hit in the concerted Ukrainian offensive included Lipetsk and Tula. More from regnum.ru Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Zakharova: Ukrainian UAV attack shows terrorist nature of Kyiv The attack of Ukrainian drones on Russian regions demonstrates the terrorist nature of Kiev. This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova. "By an unfortunate coincidence, which has become a regular occurrence, [OSCE Secretary General Feridun Sinirlioglu] came under attack - not physically, but while in a geographical location - by Kiev-regime VAS drones, which are directed, among other things, at the capital when a high-ranking international delegation is there. <…> Apparently, so that they would learn about the terrorist nature of the Kiev regime not from papers, but in practice," TASS quotes Zakharova as saying. Zakharova noted that the OSCE delegation headed by Sinirlioglu will be taken to the crash site of the Ukrainian UAV in Moscow so that the Secretary General of the organization “will learn about a non-existent reality not from his own reports, which are given to him, among other things, by those who sponsor the Kiev regime, but so that he will learn about the reality that actually exists.” As reported by the Regnum news agency, on the night of March 11, air defense systems shot down over 330 Ukrainian drones over the territory of ten Russian regions. 91 UAVs were intercepted over the Moscow region. The Kursk region was subjected to the most massive raid - 126 drones were shot down there. Another 38 drones were shot down over the Bryansk region, 25 over Belgorod, 22 over Ryazan, ten over Kaluga, eight over Lipetsk and Oryol regions. Six UAVs were neutralized over the Voronezh region, and three more over Nizhny Novgorod. |
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