Russia strikes drone-manufacturing sites in Ukraine – MOD

A recruitment center and an airfield were also among the targets, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said

The Russian military has carried out a series of strikes on Ukrainian defense industrial complex facilities involved in the production of drones and missile parts, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said.

The oversight attacks involved high-precision air, land, and sea-based weaponry, as well as UAVs, the ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

“All of the intended facilities have been hit,” it read.

The ministry said in a separate statement that Russian warplanes, drones, missile forces and artillery targeted a Ukrainian military recruitment center, an airfield, and launch sites of Kiev’s UAVs.

Temporary deployment sites of the Ukrainian military were struck in more than 130 locations over the past 24 hours, it added.

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The Ukrainian Air Force reported Russian strikes in Kiev, Dnepropetrovsk, Poltava, Kharkov, Nikolaev and Sumy Regions as well as in other parts of the country.

Over the past week, Kiev has intensified its drone raids targeting Russian territory, including Moscow. The Russian authorities describe the incursions, which happen on a regular basis, as “terrorist attacks,” saying that they are deliberately aimed at civilian infrastructure and residential areas.

The Russian Defense Ministry said earlier on Saturday that some 180 Ukrainian UAVs had been shot down inside Russia between 6:00pm on Friday and 11:30am on Saturday, with more than dozen of them having been en route to Moscow.

Russia frequently conducts drone and missile strikes on Ukrainian military infrastructure, maintaining that its operations do not target civilians and accusing Kiev of placing air defense systems in densely populated areas.