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Ukrainian long-range drone attacked an industrial plant about 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) inside RussiaUkraine’s military is engaged in intense fighting to halt a Russian offensive on Pokrovsk, the key city in the east, local officials said Tuesday. Donetsk Area.
Regional Governor Rady Habirov said in an online statement that two drones 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 said there were no injuries and the facility was functioning normally.
Meanwhile, the city administration reported that an explosion at the Sterlitamak Petrochemical Plant caused the plant’s water treatment facility to partially collapse, adding that the cause of the explosion was not known. There is no information about any previous attack on this rubber and aviation fuel manufacturing plant.
Ukraine’s bold attacks inside Russia using domestically manufactured drones have put Russia to shame moscowOfficials reported nothing about any damage and the Russians became upset. Ukraine has targeted manufacturing plants, oil refineries and military logistics centers in a bid to disrupt Russia’s war efforts, nearly four years after Moscow launched an all-out invasion.
Explosions were also heard in an industrial area of Nizhny Novgorod The area, about 800 kilometers (500 miles) from Ukraine, is where an oil refinery and a petrochemical plant are located, Russian media reported. Officials did not confirm the report.
Both Bashkortostan and Nizhny Novgorod were among the regions where the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday that Ukrainian drones had been shot down, claiming that 85 had been intercepted overnight.
Ukrainian officials said Russia bombed Ukraine’s southeastern Dnepropetrovsk region with drones, missiles and artillery overnight, killing one person and wounding 11 others, including two children.
The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia fired seven missiles of various types and 130 strike and decoy drones at Ukraine during the night.
Also, Romania’s defense said Tuesday that Russia launched two attacks overnight on Ukraine’s Danube port infrastructure close to the NATO member state’s border.
Two pairs of fighter planes were deployed separately from two different airbases for an air policing mission after “several explosions were observed off the Ukrainian coast,” the ministry said.
On the battlefield, Russia and Ukraine are fiercely competing for control of Pokrovsk, a Ukrainian stronghold in the Donetsk region that Moscow’s forces have been trying to capture for more than a year.
Russia has stepped up its efforts in the region in recent months and claims its troops are making progress.
“Russian forces are advancing in the Pokrovsk direction and operating with increasing comfort within Pokrovsk,” the Institute for the Study of War said. Washington The think tank said late Monday night.
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