Russia would have shot down around twenty Ukrainian drones on its soil – L’Express

⇒ Moscow would have suffered a massive Ukrainian drone attack on its soil

⇒ Nearly 325,000 Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine since the start of the invasion

⇒ L’Oréal acknowledges maintaining the activity of a factory in Russia

Russia claimed to have shot down around twenty Ukrainian drones in three of its regions early this Sunday, November 26, according to the Ministry of Defense. After having reported 11 drones destroyed by Russian air defense “over the territories of the Moscow, Tula, Kaluga and Bryansk regions”, the Telegram channel of the ministry reported 9 additional drones shot down.

A little later, the same channel reported “four Ukrainian drones over the Bryansk, Smolensk and Tula regions”. According to the region’s governor, Alexei Dyumin, one person was injured in Tula after a drone hit an apartment building, reports the British daily The Guardian.

Finally, the Russian government also claimed that “Russian air defense systems detected and destroyed two Ukrainian missiles in flight over the Sea of ​​Azov.” S-200 anti-aircraft missiles, converted to strike ground targets, according to this press release.

For its part, the Ukrainian Air Force indicated on his own Telegram channel having suffered an aerial attack from “9 Shahed-type attack drones”, launched from the Russian port city of Primorsko-Akhtarsk, on the shores of the Sea of ​​Azov. The air defense reportedly destroyed “8 enemy drones” out of the 9. No damage has been reported yet.

According to an infographic published this Sunday, November 26 by the Ukrainian armed forces, 324,830 Russian soldiers have been killed since the start of the Russian attack on Ukrainian soil in February 2022.

Indicative figures relayed by an official account of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense and cited by The Guardian, but which could not be verified at the moment. According to these estimates, Russia also has 5,513 tanks, 323 combat planes and even 5,901 aerial drones.

France condemned on Saturday afternoon “with the greatest firmness” the Russian air attack against kyiv on the night of Friday to Saturday, said the French Minister of Foreign Affairs in a press release. On Saturday morning, Ukraine accused Moscow of having launched the largest aerial drone attack against the capital since the start of the Russian offensive in February 2022.

The attack left five people injured and left dozens of apartment buildings without power. This attack “confirms the cynicism and boundless violence” of Moscow, believes the Quai d’Orsay, describing these actions as “war crimes for which Russia will have to account”.

The French cosmetics giant L’Oréal maintains “restricted activity” in Russia, its general director Nicolas Hieronimus said on Saturday at the microphone of France Inter, while many foreign companies have left the country since the start of the war in Ukraine. “We have […] maintained a restricted part of our activity in Russia”, declared the general director in the program We don’t stop the ecoasked about the fate of the Kaluga factory, south of Moscow.

L’Oréal is not the only French company to have remained in Russia despite the invasion of Ukraine: Auchan and TotalEnergies are still active there, according to a list established by Yale University in the United States. For Nicolas Hieronimus, “this is what I believe allows us today, I hope, to avoid seizures or actions that could be taken against our assets and especially against our employees.” In mid-July, the Russian state notably took control of Danone’s assets in the country after its departure.