Russian suicide drone debris damages homes, infrastructure after downing over Khmelnytskyi Oblast
The fall of debris from shot-down Russian kamikaze drones damaged housing in Khmelnytskyi Oblast on Sept. 15, the deputy head of the regional military administration Serhiy Tyurin reported on Telegram.
No one was injured by the falling debris, Tyurin said.
In total, Russia launched 17 Iranian-designed Shahed attack drones at Khmelnytskyi Oblast. All of them were shot down by air defense forces. The wreckage fell in one of the villages in Khmelnytskyi district.
Twelve houses, windows in a boiler room, 28 windows in a school and power lines were damaged. Authorities have already begun repair work.
Starokostiantyniv air base is located in Khmelnytskyi Oblast, and the Russians have repeatedly tried to attack it, as the air base is home to a squadron of Su-24 aircraft equipped to fire Storm Shadow cruise missiles.
After the latest attack, Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat suggested that the Russians were looking for where the Ukrainian aircraft had been hidden after their successful strikes on Crimea.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked Sevastopol, the base of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Crimea, on Sept. 13. The attack, thought to have been carried out with Storm Shadow cruise missiles, damaged a large Russian amphibious assault ship, the Minsk, and a Kilo-class submarine, the Rostov-on-Don.
The submarine is capable of firing Kalibr cruise missiles, which Russia has frequently launched at targets across Ukraine from warships stationed in the Black Sea.
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