Ukraine says that drones destroyed Russian helicopters and air defenses in the Crimea | Russia-Ukraine, news war

Ukraine’s security service said it had deployed drones to attack the Russian Kirovsk military airport in the Crimea.

Ukraine said it had carried out a drone strike at Kirovsk Airport in the Crimea and claimed that multiple Russian helicopters and the air defense system had been destroyed in the strike.

According to the security service in Ukraine (SBU), drones targeted areas where Russian airlines, air defense assets, ammunition warehouses and unmanned air vehicles were. The agency claimed that the Mi-8, Mi-26 and Mi-28 helicopters were destroyed, as well as a missile and rifle system in Pantir-S1.

“The secondary explosion continued all night at the airport,” SBU said, describing part of the broader efforts to disrupt Russian air operations. “The enemy must understand that military equipment and ammunition are not safe anywhere – not on the line of communication, not in the Crimea, not in the depths of the back.”

The Russian Ministry of Defense said that more than 40 Ukrainian drones were shot down overnight on Saturday morning over the Crimea.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian officials said that two people were killed and 14 others were wounded during a Russian drone blow in the city of Odessa in a port.

Oldisa governor Oleg Kipper said on a telegram that those who were killed were due to a drone on a “residential building”. “Three of their children.”

The governor of the southern Jeresson region, Olexander Brocodine, said that someone was killed and that three others were injured in Russian strikes during the past day.

“The Russian forces targeted the critical and social infrastructure and residential areas in the region,” Brukodine added.

Regional gains

In the midst of the last attacks, the Russian Ministry of Defense said it had taken control of the Shervona Zerka settlement in the eastern Donetsk region, which Moscow claimed to be part of Russia since illegal elections in late 2022.

After direct talks between Russia and Ukraine in Turki this month to end the war, which started in 2022, both sides were unable to reach a mutual understanding.

Moscow said that any land captured during the war should be kept. Kyiv strongly rejected any peace proposal calling for the abandonment of Earth to Russia.

Friday, Russia President Vladimir Putin He said that the demands of the two countries were “completely contradictory.”

“For this reason, negotiations are organized and managed, in order to find a way to bring them together,” Putin told a press conference in Minsk, Belarus. He added that the two sides “will continue more contact” after the exchange of prisoners has been completed in the Istanbul talks.

Russia and Ukraine have conducted several articles of war prisoners since they agreed to liberate more than 1,000 arrested soldiers.