Ukraine says it has destroyed 22 Russian drones in the southern Odesa region, as Moscow said it hit the Danube port of Reni, on the border with NATO and European Union member Romania.
“On the night of September 3, 2023, the Russian occupiers launched several waves of attacks by ‘Shahed-136/131’ UAVs from the south and southeast,” Ukraine’s Air Force wrote on Telegram.
Twenty-five of the Iranian-made attack drones had been launched and “22 of them were destroyed by the forces and means of the Air Force in cooperation with the air defence of other components of the Defence Forces of Ukraine”, it said.
But Ukrainian authorities said some of the drones hit the Danube area, noting that at least two people were wounded. The Russian army said it had targeted “fuel storage facilities” in Reni, across the Danube River from Romania.
