Russia carries out drone strike on Odessa, Ukraine claims to have destroyed Russian air missile defense system S-400

Russia and Ukraine attacked each other with drones in the early hours of Wednesday. The officers provided this information. Ukraine is believed to have tried to target Moscow once again, while Russian troops have started shelling Ukraine’s grain storage depots once again. Attacking Ukraine’s grain reserves has become one of Moscow’s tactic in the 18-month war between Ukraine and Russia. Earlier in the day, Ukraine’s intelligence agency claimed it had destroyed a key S-400 air missile defense system deployed by Russia in Crimea. If Ukraine’s claim is confirmed, it will be another uncomfortable situation for Moscow. Ukraine continues to penetrate deep into the Russian front in southern and eastern Ukraine, targeting Moscow assets. The agency, known by the acronym GUR, claimed on its official Telegram channel that Russia has a “limited number” of complex systems and that the damage was a “huge blow”.

There was no immediate reaction from Moscow officials. The long-range S-400 missile is capable of shooting down enemy aircraft and is one of the best such systems. It has a range of 400 km and can engage multiple targets simultaneously. Earlier, Oleh Kiper, head of the regional military administration based in Ukraine’s Odessa, said in a telegram message that Russia carried out drone strikes in the southern Odessa region for three consecutive hours on Tuesday night, which caused the fire at the storage facility. Ukraine’s Infrastructure Minister Aleksandr Kubrakov said in a Facebook post that the attack destroyed 13,000 metric tons of grain, bringing the Russian attack this month to about 270,000 metric tons. Keeper claimed that Ukraine’s air defense system shot down nine ‘Shaheed’ drones. “Unfortunately, the production and inter-transportation complex was hit, although there were no casualties,” he said. Russia has been increasingly attacking the port city since Russian President Vladimir Putin pulled out of Ukraine’s grain export deal via the Black Sea. Attacking Odessa and destroying its infrastructure.

Meanwhile, Russia’s Defense Ministry and Moscow’s mayor claimed that Russian security forces shot down Ukrainian drones in the capital Moscow and its surrounding areas in the early hours of Wednesday. The ministry, however, said that no casualty was reported in these drone strikes. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that a drone fell on a building under construction in the city of Moscow. He said that this prestigious commercial complex has come under drone attack twice in the past as well. According to Sobyanin, several windows of two nearby buildings were shattered in the said incident, after which emergency services arrived at the scene. Russia’s Defense Ministry said the drone planes were electronically jammed. Moscow blamed the attack on Ukraine and said two other drones were shot down by air defense systems in Russia’s Mozhaisk and Khimki regions. Moscow’s airports were briefly closed due to the incident, according to Russian state media, but have now been reopened. Drone attacks on Russian soil have increased in recent days, but have caused little property damage and no casualties. Ukrainian officials have neither confirmed nor denied the attack, as per the old policy.

Disclaimer: IndiaTheNews has not edited this news. This news has been published from PTI-language feed.