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Russia's Defense Ministry says it intercepted 239 UAVs
Russia's Defense Ministry said 239 aircraft-type UAVs were intercepted and destroyed over various parts of the country and the Black Sea overnight from August 30 to 31. In addition to fires in the Rostov region, two people were killed and 16 injured in a missile attack in Belgorod.
Russia's Defense Ministry said that between 8 p.m. on August 30 and 8 a.m. on August 31, air defense forces intercepted and destroyed 239 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles over various parts of the country and the Black Sea.
The ministry said the UAVs were detected over the Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Oryol, Rostov, Samara, Saratov, Tambov and Tula regions, as well as around Moscow, in Krasnodar Krai, Crimea and the airspace over the Black Sea.
Air attacks reported over Moscow and Rostov
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said air defense forces had repelled an attack involving six UAVs over the capital. Emergency crews continued working at the sites where debris had fallen.
More than 30 UAVs were destroyed in six districts of the Rostov region. Rostov Region Governor Yuri Slyusar said fires broke out in two areas of woodland measuring 0.6 and 0.1 hectares, respectively, and that no one was injured.
Two killed in Belgorod attack
At around 7:40 p.m. the previous evening, an attack was carried out on the sorting and delivery centers of a logistics company in Belgorod. The facility was evacuated and the fire was brought under control. Order intake and deliveries were temporarily suspended in Belgorod and the surrounding area.
Belgorod Region Acting Governor Aleksandr Shuvalev said a missile attack on a commercial facility in the city killed a man and a 16-year-old child and injured 16 people. Seven children aged 16 and 17 were among the injured.
The attack injured a man in an administrative building, started fires in seven warehouse buildings and caused the roof of one warehouse to collapse. Later, three of the injured sought treatment at medical facilities.
Two children suffering from acoustic trauma went to the Belgorod Regional Children's Clinical Hospital, while a woman went to City Hospital No. 2 in Belgorod on her own. According to the latest statements, the missile attack in Belgorod killed two people and injured 16.
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