Russia’s Defense Ministry said air defense units had neutralized 328 fixed-wing Ukrainian drones between 8 p.m. on August 22 and 8 a.m. on August 23.
The ministry said the drones were detected over the Belgorod, Bryansk, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Orenburg, Oryol, Rostov, Ryazan, Saratov, Smolensk, Tver and Tula regions, as well as the Moscow region and Krasnodar Krai. Drones were also destroyed over Crimea, the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.
Developments in Moscow and Belgorod
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said six drones heading toward the capital had been destroyed. Emergency crews were working at the site after debris fell, officials said.
Three people were injured in drone attacks in the Belgorod region. A 17-year-old girl was among the injured, officials said.
In the settlement of Krasnaya Yaruga, a woman was injured by shrapnel that struck her shoulder when an FPV drone exploded. Another drone attack damaged a house and set a car on fire.
In the city of Grayvoron, a woman suffered multiple shrapnel wounds as a result of a drone explosion. A 17-year-old girl injured in an attack on a car in the village of Surkovo, in the Shebekino district, was taken to the regional children’s hospital. Another vehicle was damaged in an attack in the city of Shebekino.
Statements from Bryansk and Orenburg
Yegor Kovalchuk, acting governor of the Bryansk region, said air defense units had destroyed 98 fixed-wing drones in the region’s airspace over the past 24 hours.
Orenburg Mayor Albert Yumadilov said several drones had been shot down over the city’s special economic zone. Drone debris fell in the area of a logistics complex owned by online retailer Ozon, where a fire broke out.
Emergency crews from Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Situations extinguished the fire in a short time, and no one was injured, officials said. Orenburg Governor Yevgeny Solntsev said the region had come under a drone attack and that industrial facilities had been targeted.
Attack on Yuzhny Port
Russia’s Defense Ministry said Russian forces were continuing attacks on ports and vessels that it said were used by the Ukrainian army to transport cargo.
The ministry said five tanks containing fuel and oil products were hit in drone attacks on Yuzhny Port in the Odesa region. The statement added that port infrastructure used to unload and store military cargo was also affected by the attack.
