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Russia apparently protects Crimean bridge with underwater barrier
According to media reports, Kiev uses stealth cardboard drones
According to media reports, Ukraine attacked the airport in Kursk, Russia, with a new type of drone a few days ago. According to this, a total of 16 missiles made of cardboard, which are said to be difficult to locate for anti-aircraft radar, were used.
Russia depends on the bridge connecting the occupied Crimea peninsula to the mainland. After several attacks, it is now apparently specially secured. Meanwhile, the UN is making proposals to Russia for a new grain agreement. More in the live ticker.
RAccording to British estimates, ussland has taken special protective measures for the Crimean bridge. As of Tuesday, images confirmed that Russia had erected an underwater barrier, the British Ministry of Defense wrote on short message service X. Shipwrecks and floating barriers were used for this. In the southern part of the bridge there are several ships at a distance of 160 meters. This is to protect against possible Ukrainian attacks with sea drones.
The Kerch Strait, which connects the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, is a bottleneck for militarily supplying Russian forces in the occupied areas of Cherson and Zaporizhia. “Russia is very dependent on the Crimean Bridge and ferries to cross the straits,” the British wrote. Russia also uses smoke generators and air defense systems.
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11:56 am – Drone attack on Kurchatov nuclear power station in south-western Russia
According to official information, an administrative building was hit when a drone attacked the Russian nuclear city of Kurchatov in the Kursk region. “The facade is slightly damaged,” Kursk Governor Roman Starovoit wrote on his Telegram channel. There was no further damage, casualties or injuries. In the morning, the authorities initially reported the attack by two drones on Kurchatov. Starowoit later corrected the information.
A Russian military airport near Kursk was attacked by Ukrainian drones a few days ago; Kiev is said to have used unmanned planes made of cardboard for the first time.
10:15 a.m. – The current situation
The current situation in Ukraine
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10:00 am – Wounded in Russian airstrike in central Ukraine
According to the authorities, several people were injured in a Russian rocket attack in the central Ukrainian region of Vinnytsia. The exact number is still unclear, says regional governor Serhij Borsow. “Unfortunately, there are victims who are given all the help they need,” he wrote on Telegram. During the night attack, a private company was hit by a Russian cruise missile. The Ukrainian air defense shot down a second cruise missile over the central Kirovohrad region.
08:42 – Guterres makes proposals to Russia for new grain deal
UN Secretary-General António Guterres wants to revive the grain agreement with Russia and Ukraine with new proposals. Guterres said he wrote a letter to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov with a number of concrete offers. “We have some concrete solutions to the problems that will allow effective or more effective access of Russian food and fertilizers to global markets at reasonable prices,” he said.
Guterres said nothing about the exact content of his proposals. He demanded that the new agreement must be stable and not “drag from crisis to crisis” again.
Lavrov said at a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan that Russia had presented a list of requirements that the West must meet in order for Ukrainian grain shipments across the Black Sea to resume.
08:02 – Russian air defense intercepts drone in front of Moscow
According to the mayor of Moscow, the Russian air defense intercepted a drone just outside the capital. The drones fell in Lyubertsi, south-east of Moscow, writes Sergei Sobyanin on Telegram.
00:23 – Russia: Air defense shoots down unknown object over Pskov region
According to a Russian governor, Russia’s air defenses shot down an unknown missile in the north-western region of Pskov Oblast. Governor Mikhail Vedernikov posted a video on Telegram showing an explosion in the sky. According to Wedernikow, it was an “unidentifiable object”. There was no damage to the ground after the launch. In the same region, Russia said it had already thwarted a drone attack over the Pskov military airfield on Wednesday, which damaged four Russian transport planes.
11:51 PM – Moscow Mayor: We are expanding our air defenses
In view of increasing drone attacks on the Russian capital, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has spoken of expanding its own air defense. “This year we have done a lot to protect Moscow from drones and attempted terrorist attacks,” Sobyanin told representatives of municipal companies, according to the Interfax agency. In the past few weeks, new anti-aircraft systems have been installed, sometimes on a daily basis, claimed Sobyanin, who wants to be re-elected in more than a week. “Sometimes the asphalt doesn’t even have time to cool down – and then the rockets are deployed, shooting down the flying drones.”
Independent observers, on the other hand, have repeatedly expressed doubts about official reports that many of the suspected Ukrainian drones were recognized and shot down by Moscow’s air defenses. The unmanned missiles have repeatedly penetrated into the city center in recent weeks and caused damage there, for example in the famous skyscraper district of Moscow City. However, the consequences of the attacks bear no relation to the consequences of the war in Ukraine, which was attacked by Russia and where thousands of civilians have already been killed.