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Over the night of July 5 and 6, a series of suspected Russian drone strikes targeted the northeastern Ukrainian region of Sumy, causing damage.
The Ukrainian Air Forces said that 27 Geran-type suicide drones were launched by the Russian military from the Crimean Peninsula and the Kursk region during the attack. It went on to claim that 24 of the drones were shot down by Ukrainian air defenses.
Despite these claims, the Kiev regime’s Sumy Military Administration confirmed that an energy facility in the region was hit, leading to blackouts in a number of settlements.
Also overnight, Russian air defense foiled a Ukrainian drone attack, intercepting eight drones over Kursk and the Belgorod region.
“During the past night, when the Kiev regime attempted to carry out terrorist attacks using aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles on the territory of the Russian Federation, air defense systems on duty destroyed seven UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles] over the Kursk Region and one UAV over the Belgorod Region,” the Russian Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
There were no reports of any material losses or casualties in Kursk or Belgorod following the failed Ukrainian drone attack.
The Kiev regime intensified attacks on Russia with the start of the year, damaging infrastructure and killing and wounding a number of civilians.
Just a day earlier, a child was killed and five other people were wounded as a result of a drone attack that targeted the Russian region of Krasnodar.
In response to this escalation, the Russian military resumed group strikes on military infrastructure and related energy facilities in Ukraine. It also stepped up offensive operations in the directions of Donetsk, Kharkiv and several others, capturing more territory from Kiev forces.
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