New drone attacks against Russia. The Russian army claimed to have repelled during the night of Monday to Tuesday August 1 an attack by three Ukrainian naval drones against its patrol boats in the Black Sea, at the heart of heightened tensions between Kiev and Moscow since the withdrawal of Russia from the agreement cereal mid-July.
“During the night, the Ukrainian armed forces tried unsuccessfully to attack with three naval drones the “Sergei Kotov” and the “Vassily Bykov”, patrol boats of the Russian Black Sea Fleet”, indicated the Russian Ministry of Security. Defense in a press release.
“The enemy’s three naval drones were destroyed” by open fire from Russian ships, he said, adding that the patrol boats were attacked 340 kilometers southwest of Sevastopol, port of attachment of the Russian Black Sea Fleet to the annexed Crimea.
A damaged office building in Moscow
Early on Tuesday, a new drone attack on Moscow and its region was also thwarted, Russian authorities said, saying one of the drones hit an office building in a Moscow business district, which had already been targeted. last weekend.
An attempted night attack on Kyiv by means of “unmanned aerial vehicles against infrastructure in Moscow and the Moscow region has been foiled”, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Telegram. A drone “was neutralized by (means of) electronic warfare and, having lost control, crashed on the territory” of the business district of Moscow City, added the Russian Defense.
He “hit the same tower of the City (of Moscow) as the last time,” said the mayor of the capital Sergei Sobyanin on Telegram. During the night from Saturday to Sunday, several windows of two buildings in Moscow City, the city’s most important business district, were blown out after a Ukrainian drone attack, Sergei Sobyanin reported.
Six dead and dozens injured in Kryvyi Rig
A Russian airstrike ripped through an apartment building in Ukraine on Monday, killing six and injuring dozens. Early in the morning, Kryvyi Rig, the birthplace of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, located in the center of the country, was the target of two Russian missiles.
One destroyed an entire section of a building, killing six, including a 10-year-old girl and her mother, and injuring 75, according to an updated report from the head of the military administration of this city, Oleksandr Vilkoul. The majority of the injured are treated at home, but around twenty others “remain in hospital”, two of whom are “seriously affected”, he said.
The other missile hit the building of an educational institution. “They hit residential buildings, a university building, a crossroads. Unfortunately, there are dead and injured,” denounced President Zelensky on Facebook, deriding “Russian terrorism”.
On images posted on Facebook by Volodymyr Zelensky, we can see the still smoking corner of a building gutted on five floors and blackened by flames. Debris littered the road past this building, where firefighters were busy.
Further south, in Kherson, a 65-year-old man was killed when his car was hit by Russian fire, local authorities said.
Moscow has stepped up its strikes in Ukraine, says Russian Defense Minister
Russia, which never admits to causing civilian casualties, has admitted on the other hand to multiplying the bombardments in Ukraine, while justifying them. “The intensity of strikes on Ukrainian military installations, including those that support these terrorist acts, has skyrocketed” in response to recent attacks targeting Russian territory, the Russian Defense Minister said on Monday. Sergei Shoigu in a speech in the presence of military officials.
In the territories occupied by Russia, Ukrainian bombardments on Monday killed four people and injured 10 in Donetsk, a stronghold of pro-Russian separatists in the east, according to pro-Moscow authorities. Another person died in Ukrainian shelling on Gorlivka, near Donetsk, and three others in a strike on an occupied village in the Zaporizhia region, which also left 15 injured, according to the authorities.