A couple of fires broke out in portions of Russia after an in a single day drone barrage that looks to have focused air bases and armed forces cities.The Ministry of Protection of Russia mentioned it took down 125 Ukrainian drones in different areas right through the night time of September 28-29.Some 67 “Ukrainian aircraft-type UAVs” (Unmanned Aerial Automobiles) have been “intercepted and destroyed” over the Volgograd area, 17 over the Belgorod area, 17 over the Voronezh area, 18 over the Rostov area, one each and every over the Bryansk and Kursk areas, one over the Krasnodar Krai territory and 3 over the waters of the Sea of Azov, it mentioned in a commentary on Telegram.Within the Volgograd Area, no less than 3 fires had been recorded close to and round an ammunition depot in Kotluban, in step with ASTRA, a Russia-Ukraine conflict reporting Telegram channel, which cited NASA’s hearth tracking device FIRMS.Ukrainian assault drones reportedly struck the Russian GRAU arsenal at Kotluban in a single day. In keeping with native assets and FIRMS, fires are burning within the neighborhood of the huge Russian ammunition garage facility in Volgograd Oblast. %.twitter.com/SH4MR683z6— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) September 29, 2024
It’s unclear whether or not the ability has been hit however FIRMS presentations a number of lively fires in Kotluban during the last 24 hours.Ahead of this, ASTRA had already gained stories from Volgograd citizens who mentioned there was once a hearth within the village of Sady Pridonya, round 30 kilometers from Kotluban.A number of movies purporting to turn a hearth led to through the drone assault in Kotluban are circulating on-line however this pictures is in truth from a 2021 blaze led to through a container explosion on a boat within the port of Jebel Ali, in Dubai, ASTRA discovered. Ukrainian newspaper Strana additionally debunked the pictures.The Volgograd area’s governor, Andrey Ivanovich Bocharov, mentioned blazes within the space have been “dry grass fires led to through falling particles,” in step with Strana, including that “they have been temporarily extinguished through firefighting gadgets” and there have been “no casualties or harm to civilian or army amenities.”
Ukrainian army drone operators compile a Poseidon reconnaissance unmanned aerial car at the border with Russia on August 11, 2024. Russia mentioned it shot down more than one Ukrainian drones at the night time of September 28-29.
Ukrainian army drone operators compile a Poseidon reconnaissance unmanned aerial car at the border with Russia on August 11, 2024. Russia mentioned it shot down more than one Ukrainian drones at the night time of September 28-29.
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Head of Kotluban, Igor Davydenko additionally mentioned there have been no casualties or harm in Sady Pridonya.Within the Rostov area, Millerovo air base was once attacked, in step with stories from army running a blog channel @oko_gora, which mentioned its research confirmed “the world adjoining to the airfield is burning” and ASTRA. FIRMS presentations a number of lively fires close to the air base prior to now 24 hours.Rostov’s regional governor, Vasily Golubev, mentioned: “there aren’t any casualties or harm at the floor” in his area, in step with ASTRA.Millerovo, positioned round 20 miles from Russia’s border with Ukraine, was once reportedly attacked through Ukrainian drones in July. It was once hit however “with out vital harm,” Russian army blogger, Rybar mentioned on the time.In Krasnodar Krai, there were stories of explosions within the coastal army the city of Yeysk, the place a Russian Army airfield is positioned, native Telegram teams observed through ASTRA mentioned.Newsweek has contacted the Russian and Ukrainian Protection Ministries for remark.
