Explosions have been reported at the Kerch Bridge in Crimea which links Russia to the occupied territory.
Fourteen drones were shot down by Russian air defences and a further six were jammed electronically, the ministry said in a Telegram post. No casualties or damage were reported.
The overnight attacks followed three consecutive days of drone attacks on the Russian capital, Moscow Firing drones at Russia, after more than 17 months of war has little apparent military value for Ukraine, but the strategy has served to unsettle Russians and bring home to them the conflict’s consequences.
Drone attacks have increased in recent weeks both on Moscow and on Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014 – a move that most of the world considered illegal.Elsewhere, Russia claimed it has regained control of the village of Urozhaine in Ukraine’s easternmost Luhansk region in an overnight counter-attack.
A 73-year-old woman was killed early on Saturday morning in Russian shelling of Ukraine’s north-eastern Kharkiv region, according to regional governor Oleh Syniehubov.
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