Russia’s air defense units neutralized 494 Ukrainian-made fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles between 8 p.m. on August 29 and 8 a.m. on August 30. Russia’s Defense Ministry said the drones had been intercepted and destroyed.
The ministry said the aircraft were downed over the Leningrad, Bryansk, Belgorod, Kaluga, Kursk, Tver, Smolensk, Oryol, Pskov, Tula, Novgorod and Rostov regions, as well as Krasnodar Krai, Moscow Region and the area around Crimea. The statement also said drones were neutralized in the airspace over the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.
Energy facility damaged in Kursk
Kursk Region Governor Alexander Khinshtein announced that an energy facility in the Belovsky district was damaged in a drone attack. Khinshtein said 100 drones of various types were downed between 9 a.m. on August 29 and 9 a.m. on August 30.
According to the governor, areas evacuated from populated localities came under artillery fire 43 times. Six attacks were also carried out using drones carrying explosives.
Windows and the entrance door of an administrative building were damaged in the village of Shekino in the Rylsky district. No one was killed or injured in these incidents.
Three civilians killed and 10 injured in Belgorod
The Belgorod Region Operational Headquarters announced that three people had been killed and many others injured in drone attacks carried out over a 24-hour period. The attacks in the city of Shebekino killed three civilians and injured 10 people, seven of whom were hospitalized.
Seven people were injured in the settlement of Oktyabrsky. The injured included a teenager and three emergency medical workers. Three men were injured when a drone exploded in the village of Dolgoye; one of them was taken to the Valuyki Central District Hospital, while the other two were sent home.
A man was injured in a drone attack targeting a vehicle in the settlement of Pyatnitskoye. Near the village of Podkopaevka, a man was hospitalized and three trucks were damaged.
The driver of a volunteer fire truck was injured and hospitalized after a drone struck the vehicle near the village of Lomovo. The number of injured people rose to two after a first-person-view drone exploded in the settlement of Rakitnoye.
A warehouse belonging to a business and two trucks caught fire in Shebekino overnight. A detached house, a natural gas pipeline and a vehicle were also damaged. Firefighters extinguished fires that broke out in an auxiliary structure and a truck.
A woman in the village of Kupino suffered acoustic trauma because of a drone explosion. Four of the 10 people injured in the city of Shebekino were reported to be in serious condition.
Seven drones downed near Moscow
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin announced that seven drones approaching the capital were downed between 4 a.m. and 8 a.m.
Russia announces strikes on targets in Ukraine
Russia’s Defense Ministry said group strikes on Ukraine’s military-industrial enterprises continued throughout the night. The ministry claimed that sections storing explosive materials were hit at a plant in Kyiv producing asbestos-cement products.
The statement claimed that the warehouses were used to meet the needs of an engineering company producing unmanned aerial vehicles and their munitions. The ministry also announced that Russia was preparing intensive strikes on energy facilities in Ukraine in response to attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure.
Russia’s Defense Ministry also announced that units of Russia’s Northern Forces had taken control of the settlements of Velykyi Prykol and Sadky in the Sumy region.
The ministry said Russia’s operational-tactical aircraft, attack drones, missile forces and artillery units had targeted energy infrastructure, an ammunition production facility, logistics centers, drone assembly and storage areas, and temporary troop deployment sites in Ukraine.
