The Russian authorities announced, today, Wednesday, that their forces destroyed five Ukrainian suicide boats, and shot down a drone over the Crimea peninsula that was planning to target military and civilian sites.

The Russian “Dnepr” combat group confirmed in a statement that it had destroyed five Ukrainian boats in “Kherson” region over the past 24 hours, killed four fighters, and targeted a “Grad” multiple launch missile system and its crew of three military personnel, pointing out that this operations also resulted in the injury of four Ukrainian soldiers.

A spokesman for the group said, in press statements, that the Russian forces destroyed a Ukrainian site that included five soldiers in the “islands” area, wounding seven other fighters, and destroyed a number of military vehicles.

In addition, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated, in a statement, that the air defense systems detected a Ukrainian drone in the airspace of Crimea, and destroyed it before attempting to target sites in Russian territory, after it shot down three other drones earlier in the airspace of “Kaluga” province. “Southwest of the country.”

Source: National Iraqi News Agency