Last week, a drone hit a residential constructing in Russia’s southern metropolis of Voronezh. (Representational)

Moscow:

Russia on Saturday mentioned it had destroyed three drones concentrating on an oil refinery within the southern border area of Bryansk, as Ukraine pursues its counteroffensive in opposition to Russian forces.

“Russian air defence systems repelled an overnight attack by the Ukrainian armed forces on the ‘Druzhba’ oil refinery in the district of Novozybkov,” the governor of the Bryansk area, Alexander Bogomaz, mentioned.

“Thanks to the professionalism of our military… three aerial drones were destroyed.”

He didn’t point out any injury.

Drone assaults have multiplied in current months, with Kyiv and Moscow claiming to repel some a number of occasions every week.

On Russian soil, oil amenities — important for supplying the troops — look like the precedence targets of the drone assaults.

The Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula, which Kyiv repeatedly mentioned it plans to take again, can be frequently focused.

Russian forces downed 9 drones over the peninsula, its Moscow-installed governor Sergei Aksyonov mentioned on Thursday.

Last week, a drone hit a residential constructing in Russia’s southern metropolis of Voronezh and injured two folks.

This was the primary report of drones in Voronezh, a metropolis of some a million those that lies in a area deeper inside Russia than the border areas Russia normally reviews as being focused.

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