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Russia says it downed 93 Ukrainian drones and struck Odesa ports
The Russian Defense Ministry announced that it destroyed 93 Ukrainian drones with air defense systems on the night of July 14-15. The ministry also reported that fuel depots and drone production workshops were hit in attacks on the ports of Odesa and Chornomorsk that same night.
The Russian Defense Ministry announced significant air defense successes over the past 24 hours as part of its military operations against Ukraine. According to the ministry's statement on the morning of July 15, air defense forces shot down a total of 93 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) starting from the evening of July 14.
According to information shared on the ministry's Telegram channel, the aircraft-type UAVs neutralized between 8:00 p.m. Moscow time on July 14 and 7:00 a.m. on July 15 were destroyed over the Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk, Rostov, and Moscow regions, Krasnodar Krai, Crimea, and the Sea of Azov and Black Sea.
Heavy drone attack on Moscow
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin also announced that 340 UAVs headed toward the Moscow region in the past 24 hours. Sobyanin said, "Most of them were neutralized at long distances by air defense forces. More than 50 enemy UAVs were destroyed as they approached Moscow."
Airstrikes on Ukrainian ports
The Russian Defense Ministry also reported that attacks on Ukrainian ports continued on the night of July 15. The statement claimed that ports "used to transport cargo for the Ukrainian Armed Forces" were targeted.
It was noted that infrastructure facilities at the ports of Odesa and Chornomorsk were hit in group strikes carried out with high-precision weapons and attack UAVs of the air force.
According to the ministry, facilities used for fuel unloading, fuel tanks belonging to the Ukrainian army, and UAV production workshops were hit at the Port of Odesa. Two workshops where UJ-22 medium-range UAVs belonging to the Ukrjet company were assembled were also struck at the same port.
At the Port of Chornomorsk, a container ship and a dry cargo ship were damaged, and at the Dnipro-Bugsky Port in the Mykolaiv region, two dry cargo ships unloading supplies for the Ukrainian army were hit, it was claimed.
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