An explosion damaged buildings in central Krasnodar, a large southern Russian city, while air defenses shot down a missile over the neighboring Rostov region, according to local officials.
(Bloomberg) — An explosion damaged buildings in central Krasnodar, a large southern Russian city, while air defenses shot down a missile over the neighboring Rostov region, according to local officials.
The blast didn’t result in any casualties, and the cause is being investigated, Krasnodar regional Governor Veniamin Kondratiev said Friday in a Telegram post, without giving details.
Videos shared across Russian telegram channels Friday showed what may have been a drone flying over Krasnodar seconds before an explosion.
Russian air defenses also shot down “a Ukrainian missile” around Morozovsk in the southern Rostov region overnight, Governor Vasily Golubev said on his Telegram channel.
Russian regions near Ukraine have faced intensified attacks this month, including an incursion by armed attackers who crossed the border into the Belgorod region this week. Two drones also exploded over the Kremlin on May 3, an attack that Moscow blamed on Ukraine, which denied involvement. The war unleashed by President Vladimir Putin in February last year is now in its 16th month.
Ukraine said its air defenses shot down 10 Russian missiles and 25 drones overnight, the latest barrage of a bombing campaign that has targeted the capital Kyiv 13 times so far this month. Russian forces fired 17 missiles and 31 Shahed drones in all, with some hitting targets in the Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions, Ukrainian Air Force Command said on Telegram.
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