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By Reuters
September 10


DRONE WAR

The war has largely been a grinding artillery and drone war along the 1,000 km (620 mile) heavily fortified front line in southern and eastern Ukraine involving hundreds of thousands of soldiers.
Moscow and Kyiv have both sought to buy and develop new drones, deploy them in innovative ways, and seek new ways to destroy them - from using shotguns to advanced electronic jamming systems.
Both sides have turned cheap commercial drones into deadly weapons while ramping up their own production and assembly to attack targets including tanks and energy infrastructure such as refineries and airfields.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has sought to insulate Moscow from the grinding rigours of the war, has called Ukrainian drone attacks that target civilian infrastructure such as nuclear power plants "terrorism" and has vowed a response.
Moscow and other big Russian cities have largely been insulated from the war.
Russia itself has hit Ukraine with thousands of missiles and drones in the last two-and-a-half years, killing thousands of civilians, wrecking much of the country's energy system and damaging commercial and residential properties across the country.
Ukraine says it has a right to strike back deep into Russia, though Kyiv's Western backers have said they do not want a direct confrontation between Russia and the U.S.-led NATO military alliance.
There was no immediate comment from Ukraine about Tuesday's attacks. Both sides deny targeting civilians.
Tuesday's attack follows drone attacks Ukraine launched in early September chiefly targeting Russia's energy and power facilities.
Authorities in the Tula region, which neighbours the Moscow region to its north, said drone wreckage had fallen onto a fuel and energy facility but that the "technological process" of the facility was not affected.

Tim Ash

Times Radio




Sep 10, 2024

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"China has not stepped up and helped, help Russia particularly."

China is increasingly avoiding supporting Russia militarily in Ukraine as it seeks to
repair relations with the US and avoid western sanctions,
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The 144-drone bombardment killed at least one woman near the capital, Russian authorities said, and wrecked dozens of homes.

Russia said it downed at least 20 of Ukraine’s drones as they swarmed over the Moscow region - which has a population of over 21 million.

Footage from the city’s Ramenskoye district showed fires breaking out in homes after drones damaged high-rise apartment buildings.

And according to Moscow’s regional governor, it was in this district that a woman was killed and three people were injured.

Yulia Rodionova is a resident in the area - her windows were shattered and a fragment of a drone was left on her balcony.

"A man was taken out from the house number 21 - he had his side burnt and a fragment wound. They also carried out another man, a very elderly one, and quickly got out a woman. That's all I saw, I don't know any more."

Russia’s defense ministry said over 70 drones were also downed over the Bryansk region and tens more over other regions.