One drone crashed just 60 miles away from Moscow in an alarming development for Russian defenses.
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday ordered officials to tighten control of the border with Ukraine after a spate of drone attacks that Russian authorities blamed on Kyiv delivered a new challenge to Moscow more than a year after itsOne drone crashed just 100 kilometers away from Moscow in an alarming development for Russian defenses.
Ukrainian officials didn’t immediately claim responsibility for the attacks, but they similarly avoided directly acknowledging responsibility for previous strikes and sabotage while emphasizing Ukraine’s right to hit any target in Russia following the full-scale invasion that began last year. Pictures of the drone showed it was a Ukrainian-made type. It reportedly has a range of up to 800 kilometers , but isn’t capable of carrying a large load of explosives.
While Ukrainian drone strikes on the Russian border regions of Bryansk and Belgorod that lie north of Ukraine’s Sumy region aren’t unusual, the hits on the Krasnodar and Adygea regions further south are noteworthy. Separately, the local government of St. Petersburg — Russia’s second-largest city about 1,300 kilometers north of the border with Ukraine — said early Tuesday that it was temporarily halting all flight departures and arrivals at the city’s main airport, Pulkovo. It didn’t give a reason for the move.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov refused to comment on the situation in St. Petersburg, urging reporters to wait for details from the country’s aviation authorities or the military.Speaking at Russia’s main security agency, the FSB, Putin urged the service to tighten security on the Ukraine border. Inside Ukraine, authorities said Tuesday that at least two civilians were killed by renewed Russian shelling in the southern city of Kherson and surrounding villages and 17 more were wounded in fighting over the previous 24 hours.
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