{"id":217648,"date":"2023-12-15T21:25:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T21:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/?p=217648"},"modified":"2023-12-15T21:25:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T21:25:38","slug":"dramatic-moment-russia-shoots-down-26-drones-over-crimea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/world-news\/dramatic-moment-russia-shoots-down-26-drones-over-crimea\/","title":{"rendered":"Dramatic moment Russia shoots down 26 drones over Crimea"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Dramatic moment Russia shoots down 26 drones over Crimea &#8211; as Putin&#8217;s Kremlin accuses Ukraine of staging assault on annexed peninsula<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ministry statement said interceptions took place between 8:30\u00a0p.m. and 10:30 p.m.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the dramatic moment Russia shoots down 26 drones over Crimea as Putin&#8217;s Kremlin accuses Ukraine of staging an assault on the annexed peninsula.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Russia said on Friday that it had thwarted a series of Ukrainian drone attacks in two border regions.<\/p>\n<p>Over a two-hour period, 26 drones were shot down over the Crimea peninsula annexed from Ukraine in 2014, the defence ministry said in a statement, without saying if there were any victims or if any damage was sustained.<\/p>\n<p>A ministry statement said the interceptions took place between 8:30\u00a0p.m. and 10:30 p.m. (1730-1930 GMT).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the ministry said in posts on Telegram that six drones targeting &#8216;installations on Russian territory&#8217; were shot down in the Kursk region, again without providing further details.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/15\/20\/79017881-12869873-A_video_showed_a_drone_purportedly_being_shot_down_on_Friday_eve-a-7_1702672019964.jpg\" height=\"573\" width=\"306\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/15\/20\/79018213-12869873-A_drone_purportedly_downed_over_the_Crimea_peninsula_on_Friday_e-m-6_1702672014154.jpg\" height=\"573\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>Videos showed drones purportedly being shot down on Friday evening<\/p>\n<p>Drone attacks have been almost daily occurrences in Russia&#8217;s border regions, though mass attacks are less common.<\/p>\n<p>The governor of the Kursk region, Roman Starovoit, confirmed the attacks on Telegram, asking residents in the area to &#8216;stay calm&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The capital Moscow and its outskirts have also been targets of Ukrainian drone attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Russia, meanwhile, bombards Ukrainian towns almost daily. This week, it launched a massive drone attack on southern Ukraine and fired ballistic missiles at Kyiv, where about 50 people were wounded by debris.<\/p>\n<p>Crimea was seized from Ukraine by Russian troops and annexed in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/15\/20\/79019191-12869873-x-a-13_1702673320694.jpg\" height=\"526\" width=\"306\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/15\/20\/79019187-12869873-x-a-14_1702673320699.jpg\" height=\"526\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>Video purportedly showed a drone attack on Crimea.\u00a0A separate video appeared to show show shots directed towards a drone<\/p>\n<p><span>This is a breaking news story. More to follow.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12869873\/Dramatic-moment-Russia-shoots-26-drones-Crimea-Putins-Kremlin-accuses-Ukraine-staging-assault-annexed-peninsula.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dramatic moment Russia shoots down 26 drones over Crimea &#8211; as Putin&#8217;s Kremlin accuses Ukraine of staging assault on annexed peninsula Ministry statement said interceptions took place between 8:30\u00a0p.m. and 10:30 p.m. This is the dramatic moment Russia shoots down 26 drones over Crimea as Putin&#8217;s Kremlin accuses Ukraine of staging an assault on the annexed peninsula.\u00a0 Russia said on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dramatic moment Russia shoots down 26 drones over Crimea - Best World News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/world-news\/dramatic-moment-russia-shoots-down-26-drones-over-crimea\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dramatic moment Russia shoots down 26 drones over Crimea - Best World News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dramatic moment Russia shoots down 26 drones over Crimea &#8211; 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