2023-08-09 09:31:00
News blog about the Ukraine war
Violent explosion at a factory near Moscow
From dpa, afp, rtr, t-online
Updated on 08/09/2023 – 11:31 a.m. Reading time: 23 min.
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Violent explosion at a factory near Moscow
10:56 am: A violent explosion in the city of Sergiev Posad around 70 kilometers north-east of Moscow apparently injured around a dozen people. The explosion occurred on a factory site on Wednesday morning for initially unknown reasons, the Russian state agency TASS reported. Observers on social networks suspected a drone attack. Tass, in turn, contradicted this account, citing emergency services.
The affected factory produces optical equipment, also reportedly for military use. Photos and videos showing a large column of smoke in the sky were published on social networks. The governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov, announced that he would go to the city of Sergiyev Posad, which is also very popular with tourists, and get an idea of the situation there.
Russia, which has been waging a war of aggression against neighboring Ukraine for more than 17 months, has itself increasingly become the target of enemy drone attacks in recent weeks.
Britain: Drones increasingly important in naval warfare
10:59 am: According to British assessments, Ukrainian sea drones remain a threat to Russia. In its daily update on Wednesday, the British Ministry of Defense looked at the attacks on the Russian tanker “SIG” and the landing ship “Olenegorski Gornjak”. The British wrote on Twitter that an attack on Russian patrol boats, which were probably escorting the Russian merchant ship “Sparta IV”, had apparently also been foiled beforehand.
Although the ships are traveling under civilian flags, the “Sparta IV” and the “Sig” have long been tasked with transporting fuel and military goods between Russia and Syria, it said. Since Russian military ships have been unable to transit the Bosphorus since February 28, 2022, Russian forces in Syria and the Mediterranean are dependent on the SIG, the Sparta IV and a handful of other civilian ships.
“The attacks show that UAV operations are fast becoming an important part of modern naval warfare and can be deployed against vulnerabilities in Russia’s sea supply routes,” the ministry wrote in London.
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