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Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin began issuing warnings before midnight.
LONDON -- Russian air defenses intercepted at least 660 Ukrainian drones targeting at least 12 regions around the country, including Moscow and Russian-occupied Ukrainain territority, Russia's Defense Ministry said early on Friday, in what would be among the largest overnight attacks by Kyiv since the war began.
The ministry in an update about two hours after detailing the overnight attacks said air defenses in several regions had destroyed more than 40 drones aimed at "Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk, Kaluga, Rostov, Voronezh, Tula, and Ryazan regions, as well as the Moscow region."
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin began issuing warnings to Telegram before midnight, saying defense systems had identified drones approaching Moscow. Those warnings continued through the morning, with each saying first responders were active in locations where debris had fallen.
The massive aerial attack, which Kyiv has not appeared to confirm, would rank among the largest of the war, Russian state-affiliated media reported.
Seeking to shift the momentum of Russia’s grinding war of attrition, Kyiv has for months deployed long‑range drones to target sites deep behind the front line, including oil production and energy infrastructure.
The major attack came hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on social media that he had ordered "a 40-day influence operation," a statement that appeared to reference an escalation of attacks aimed at "compelling [Russia] to end the war" after U.S. peace efforts over the past year yielded no breakthrough.
As Ukraine's medium- and long-range aerial attacks against Russia have escalated in recent months, Zelenskyy has sought to portray those assaults as a necessity. Kyiv has maintained that it has targeted sites affiliated with Russia's military, including two strikes this month on a key oil refinery on the edge of Moscow.
"This is a fully justified response to Russian attacks on our cities and communities, and another important result of our warriors' work against facilities that sustain Russia’s war machine," Zelenskyy said last week.
Russia claimed to have downed at least 419 Ukrainian drones overnight.
LONDON -- Ukraine struck a satellite communications center in the Moscow region in an aerial attack on Tuesday, Kyiv said, as Moscow claimed to have shot down hundreds of drones launched into its territory overnight.
Ukrainian President Volodymry Zelenskyy said Ukraine struck the site, the "Dubna" space communications center, for the second time.
"This is a specialized satellite communications facility used, among other things, for intelligence gathering and coordinating the activities of Russia’s occupying forces in Ukraine," Zelenskyy said on social media on Tuesday.
Russia’s Ministry of Defense said in a morning update on its official Russian-language Telegram channel that air defense systems had intercepted and destroyed at least 419 Ukrainian drones since late Monday evening.
Those drones were shot down in at least 16 regions, including Moscow, along with Russian-occupied areas in Crimea, the ministry said.
Sergey Sobyanin, the mayor of Moscow, said early on Tuesday that at least 61 Ukrainian drones had been shot down in the capital region overnight.
Zelenskyy in announcing the Ukrainian strike on the satellite communications center noted that the facility was more than 500 km, or about 310 miles, from the Ukrainian-Russian boarder.
"Recently, our Defense Forces of Ukraine already reached four such Russian centers, not only in the Moscow region but also in the Vladimir region," he said on social media.
He added, "Step by step, we are implementing our plan of long-range sanctions and making it as difficult as possible for the aggressor state to carry out its invasion operations against Ukraine and the occupation of our territories."
I forget how big this place is here in the Portland area of Oregon. It's pretty near the airport. I thought we were also there to get a bed for a new place to live for my son but he says he might want to get a bed at Costco or something and have them deliver it? I didn't know they did that but Ikea will deliver stuff but you have to pay extra for that and if you want them to assemble your stuff that costs extra too.
So, anyway we went about 6 or 7 pm because of Rush Hour Traffic to get there from Beaverton which is on the opposite side of town near Tigard, Oregon so we likely didn't leave here until almost 6:30pm so the traffic wasn't that bad. Then we were just using the self checkout at around 9 pm after we found everything we wanted to buy for my son's new place.
then I was worried that we would have to place the flat desktop in cardboard on the roof but it just barely fit into his car so we were really happy about that.
Anyway, one moment at a time.
We likely should be in Mt. Shasta for the 4th of July a couple of days from now too and then back to the coast where the temperatures where we live are like 58 during the day and 54 during the nights pretty consistently right now because of fog (likely high fog) because low fog is more common during the winter and sometimes hail too which is always interesting too along with the rain in winter there as well.
However, What's app is owned by Facebook so I wouldn't trust them not selling your information like they do regarding everything at facebook to anyone on earth.
So, if you are into safety and end to end encryption I would trust Signal more than What's App for this reason even though both supposedly have end to end encryption which is supposed to prevent people from hearing your worldwide conversations or reading your worldwide texts.
However, both people talking have to have What's App to talk on what's app and both people on earth have to have Signal for you to do this but both are free. So, a free App and a free phone and texting worldwide and you can also send pictures worldwide too through your texts and likely sounds of you talking or music in this form too that is supposed to be encrypted so no one hears or sees any of this but you and the other party you are sending it to.
