Russia shoots down 130 drones and wounds 11 people in an attack on Ukraine news

Today, Friday, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that 130 Ukrainian drones were shot down overnight, in parallel with the authorities in the Ukrainian city of Sumy announcing that 11 people were injured in a Russian drone attack.

The Russian Ministry of Defense said, in a statement, that its air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 130 Ukrainian aircraft over the territory of several provinces during the night.

The statement stated that 31 drones were shot down over Kursk Province, 21 over Voronezh Province, 14 over Belgorod Province, and 10 over Bryansk Province, in addition to 9 drones destroyed over Oryol, Tambov, and Tula provinces, and 6 drones over each of Lipetsk and Yaroslava provinces.

In turn, the Ukrainian authorities said that a Russian attack with marches on the city of Sumy caused 11 casualties, while emergency teams reported that the attack led to the outbreak of fire in residential buildings and an infrastructure facility.

The Railway Administration also announced that the railways in Kharkiv and Sumy provinces were subjected to two Russian attacks, which led to their destruction and obstruction to the path of train trips.

On Wednesday night, at least 4 people were killed, including a girl, in a massive Russian attack on energy sites in Ukraine, which also resulted in a widespread power outage.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned these attacks, saying that the “enemy” used more than 650 drones and more than 50 missiles of different types to strike energy facilities and ordinary homes in ten regions of Ukraine.

Zelensky explained that two people died in the city of Zaporozhye in the southeast of the country, where residential buildings were bombed.

Later, the administration of the Vinnitsa region in the center-west of the country announced the death of a 7-year-old girl in the hospital as a result of her injuries in the bombing, and 4 people were injured.

One person was killed in the Kherson region when Russia attacked villages using artillery, mortar shells and drones of various types, according to the region’s prosecutor’s office.

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it had launched a large-scale attack on military industrial facilities and energy infrastructure that support its operations, in addition to military airports.

The Russian army, which launched its military operations in Ukraine at the beginning of 2022, is launching a new campaign of strikes targeting the energy network in recent weeks as winter approaches.

Russia also said that it took control of two other villages in northeastern and southern Ukraine, where Kiev forces have been losing positions for months, namely Sadovye in the Kharkiv region and Krasnogirsk in the Zaporozhye region.