Russia announced that it destroyed three Ukrainian naval drones in Crimea

Her Ministry of Defense of Russia announced that it destroyed in the Black Sea on the night of Friday to Saturday (2/9) three Ukrainian naval drones sailing to hit the Crimean bridge.

“On September 2, at about 02:20 [σ.σ. τοπική ώρα και ώρα Ελλάδας]the third unmanned Ukrainian semi-submersible, sent by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge, was destroyed in the Black Sea”the ministry said via Telegram.

On August 12, it was announced that two Ukrainian missile attacks against the strategically important bridge in the Kerch Strait had been repelled.

The high-cost bridge, built on the orders of Vladimir Putin after Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula in 2014, has repeatedly been the target of Ukrainian attacks.

A previous attack in July caused extensive damage to the road section of the infrastructure, which Kiev says is used to transport military equipment to Russian forces fighting on Ukrainian territory. Two civilians – a couple – were killed and a child, their daughter, was injured.

The approximately 18-kilometer-long concrete bridge, which President Putin personally inaugurated in 2018, consists of two parallel structures, one of which carries cars and the other trains.

Crimea is often attacked by the Ukrainian army.

Ukrainian drone shot down in Belgorod

Meanwhile, air defense systems shot down a Ukrainian drone kamikaze in the southern region of Belgorod late last night Friday, the Russian Defense Ministry announced via Telegram, without going into details.

The governor of Belgorod, Vychislav Gladkov, referred to the downing of “two” UAVs and added that according to the first information, there were no casualties or material damage on the ground.