ARCHIVE - SYMBOL IMAGE - Ukrainian soldiers from the Ochi reconnaissance unit operate a Furia drone during a flight over Russian positions on the front line. Photo: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP/dpa
Keystone
According to Russian reports, Ukraine attacked several regions of Russia with swarms of combat drones during the night. According to reports from Russian telegram channels, one focus was the Krasnodar region on the Black Sea. A fire had broken out in the city of Novorossiysk, which is important as a naval base and oil port. Anti-aircraft fire and explosions were heard over the port city of Anapa. No details of damage were given.
Keystone-SDA
11.01.2025, 08:49
SDA
The Ministry of Defense in Moscow announced that 85 enemy combat drones had been shot down at night. Such military figures cannot be independently verified. Regarding the geographical spread of the attacks, it was reported that the regions of Krasnodar, Voronezh, Belgorod, Tambov, Kursk in the west and south of the country and the annexed Black Sea peninsula of Crimea were affected. However, the airports in Kazan, Nizhnekamsk and Ulyanovsk in the Volga region also temporarily suspended operations due to the potential danger of drones.
Impacts in apartment blocks
Two apartment buildings were hit and several people injured in a drone attack in the small western Russian town of Kotovsk in the Tambov region. This was announced by the deputy governor of the region, Yevgeny Pervyshov, on his Telegram channel. "There are no fires, the buildings are slightly damaged," he continued.
In the Russian war of aggression against the neighboring country, both sides attack each other almost daily with drones. However, the consequences of the Ukrainian attacks are disproportionate to the damage and casualties caused by Russia in the neighboring country.
The Ukrainian air force announced that 47 of 74 Russian drones attacking at night had been shot down. Damage caused by the attack was reported in the Dnipropetrovsk region, among others. Infrastructure facilities and an industrial building were damaged there.