UKRaine Launches Drones on Moscow, Belgorod Following Crimea Air Raid; New UKR-Made Missile Used to Strike Crimea; UKR Breaking Through 1st Line of RUssian Defense Towards Tokmak; RU Loses 19 Equipment Units, 5 Ammo Depots in Tavria Direction, LIVE UPDATES and MORE

Ukraine launches drones on Moscow, Belgorod following Crimea air raid{

Ukraine launched drone attacks on Moscow and the border region of Belgorod, causing at least four Russian airports to temporarily close Saturday.

The attacks came one day after Ukraine carried out an air raid on a military base in Crimea.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said an air defense system shot down a drone over the Istra district, about 30 miles west of the Kremlin, early Saturday.

Russia claimed it intercepted to two more drones later Saturday over the Belgorod region, as Ukraine escalates its cross-border attacks.

Six people were wounded by shelling in a border town as well, Moscow said.

The attacks temporarily halted flights at three major airports that serve the capital, as well as one near Belgorod.

The attempted attacks followed one of Ukraine’s largest coordinated air raids since the Russian invasion in February 2022.

Ukraine’s GUR military intelligence agency confirmed drones hit a Russian military base in Crimea Friday, where residents reported deaths and explosions. —>READ MORE HERE

Official: New Ukrainian-made missile used to strike Crimea

The Aug. 23 strike on an a Russian anti-aircraft system in Crimea used a “new, completely modern” Ukrainian missile, Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, said on Aug. 26.

Danilov was speaking to Ukrainske Radio about the attack on the missile defense system in Olenivka on the northwestern tip of Russian-occupied Crimea.

The Ukrainian-made missile worked “flawlessly,” he said.

The blast wiped out a Russian S-400 air defense system. According to Ukrainian intelligence, the entire system was destroyed, along with all missiles and personnel.

The S-400 anti-aircraft system could strike targets in air, on land, and at sea, and had the ability to hit aerial targets up to 250 miles away.

The day after the strike, Ukrainian forces landed in Maiak, five kilometers from Olenivka, and raised the Ukrainian flag as part of a join operation between the Navy and intelligence units.

A radar base and radio engineering troop base for the Russian Aerospace Forces, the air and space branch of the Russian military, are located near Maiak. —>READ MORE HERE

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