Russian air defense (air defense systems) intercepted and destroyed 25 airplane drones over a number of regions. On Tuesday, March 12, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports.
“Air Defense on duty was intercepted and destroyed above the territories of the Moscow (2 UAVs), Leningrad (1 UAV), Belgorod (7 UAVs), Kursk (11 UAVs), Bryansk (1 UAV), Tula (1 BPL) and Oryol (Oryol) 2 UAVs) areas, ”the message will say.
In addition, the Russian department announced the suppression of attempts to attack in the Belgorod region using the RM-70 Vampire jacket and tactical missile system “Point-U”.
“Eight reactive shells and one Point -U TRK Rocket Disguised in the air over the territory of the Belgorod Region,” the message will be in the message.
The attack took place about 07.30 Moscow time, – added to the Ministry of Defense.
Earlier, the Governor of the Oryol Region Andrei Klychkov said that the UAV attack an object of the fuel and energy complex in Orel.
“The UAV falls in the eagle. An object of the fuel and energy complex was subjected to attack. Special services work on the spot to localize the fire. There are no injuries,” he wrote in his Telegram channel.
According to the Russian media, after the fall of the UAV, one of the reservoirs of the oil storage caught fire.
“One of the reservoirs is burning, over 60 people, 14 units of the main equipment, 4 high -altitude mechanisms and a fire train are involved in extinguishing,” the representative of the government of the Oryol region told TASS.
The ignition area is 100 square meters. m, the authorities of the region noted.
Also in the morning, the attack of the UAV was subjected to the object of the fuel and energy complex in the Kstovskaya industrial zone of the Nizhny Novgorod region.
“In the morning at the Kstovsky industrial zone, an attack of unmanned aerial vehicles was made on the object of the fuel and energy complex. Now special services work on the spot, all the necessary forces and means to localize the fire on one of the oil refined. according to preliminary data, injured No, ”the governor of the region Gleb Nikitin wrote in the Telegram channel.
Meanwhile, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that at night Russian troops attacked Ukraine, using 22 kamikaze drones and cruise missiles.
“Forces and means of air defense of Ukraine, 17 shock UAVs were destroyed,” the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said.
“Within 2.5 hours, the air defense unit repelled the attack, eight targets were destroyed: two in the Kherson region, four in the sky above Nikolaevshchina, two more left our operating zone in the direction of the Dnipropetrovsk region, where they were also destroyed,” the said in the direction of A message from defense forces of the South of Ukraine.