Russia announces having shot down Ukrainian drones and missiles the day after a large attack on kyiv

Russia said on Sunday, November 26, that it had shot down Ukrainian drones in four of its regions, as well as two Ukrainian missiles over the Sea of ​​Azov. The drone attacks targeted Russian regions bordering Ukraine and around Moscow, the Russian Defense Ministry assured. Russia also said it had shot down two Ukrainian missiles heading towards its territory over the Sea of ​​Azov. These offensives come the day after a large drone attack launched by Moscow against the Ukrainian capital, presented by kyiv as the largest of this type since the start of the conflict in February 2022.

For its part, Ukraine announced that it had shot down eight of the nine drones launched against its territory on Sunday. These drones are in addition to the 71 that were shot down by Ukrainian forces on Saturday. This attack left five people injured, according to the results communicated on Saturday by the authorities, and deprived dozens of apartment buildings and buildings of electricity. This massive attack occurred on the day of commemoration in Ukraine of the Holodomor, the great famine of the 1930s which caused the death of millions of Ukrainians, a “genocide” orchestrated according to Kiev by Joseph Stalin.