{"id":123638,"date":"2023-08-06T15:20:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T15:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/uncategorized\/2023\/08\/06\/russia-mounts-a-massive-missile-and-drone-attack-against-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T15:47:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:47:27","slug":"russia-mounts-a-massive-missile-and-drone-attack-against-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/flashpoints\/ukraine\/2023\/08\/06\/russia-mounts-a-massive-missile-and-drone-attack-against-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia mounts a massive missile and drone attack against Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Editor\u2019s note: This story was updated at 3:50 p.m. EST with additional information.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KYIV, Ukraine \u2014 Moscow unleashed a massive missile and drone barrage on western <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ukraine<\/a> Sunday, following through on its promise to retaliate for a Ukrainian attack on a Russian tanker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Separately, Moscow\u2019s second-largest airport briefly suspended flights early Sunday following a foiled drone attack near the Russian capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukraine\u2019s air force said Russia launched 70 drones and missiles from aircraft over the Caspian Sea, including Iranian-made, Shahed-136\/131 strike UAVs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three waves of missiles hit the Starokostiantyniv area, damaging several buildings and igniting a fire at a warehouse, said Serhiy Tyurin, deputy head of Ukraine\u2019s Khmelnytsky region military administration. The strike may have been intended for the city\u2019s airfield, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the facilities of aircraft engine manufacturer Motor Sich in the Zaporizhzhia region had also come under attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Russian barrage followed a Ukrainian drone <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-drones-black-sea-407a02ccfb2b1951c5afe9ec2269eed8\" target=\"_blank\">attack on a Russian tanker<\/a> in the Black Sea near Crimea late Friday. Ukraine also struck a major Russian port with drones earlier the same day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova condemned what she called a Ukrainian \u201cterrorist attack\u201d on a civilian vessel in the Kerch Strait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere can be no justification for such barbaric actions, they will not go unanswered and their authors and perpetrators will inevitably be punished,\u201d she posted on the Telegram messaging app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An official with Ukraine\u2019s Security Service confirmed to The Associated Press that a Ukrainian drone packed with 450 kilograms (992 pounds) of explosives struck the tanker that was transporting fuel for Russian forces. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia\u2019s Federal Agency for Marine and River Transport posted on Telegram that although the drone blasted a hole in the tanker\u2019s engine room, there were no casualties among the 11 crew members. On Sunday, a Ukrainian missile hit the Chonhar bridge connecting the Russian-occupied Kherson region and northern Crimea, causing minor damage to the span\u2019s roadway, said Vladimir Saldo, the Moscow-installed leader of the Kherson region. He also said several more rockets had been shot down by air defense forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bridge, which is one of three key spans connecting the Crimean Peninsula to the mainland, was previously attacked on July 22 and July 29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two of the six fatalities overnight Sunday occurred during a Russian air strike in Ukraine\u2019s Kharkiv region, according to the head of the local regional military administration, Oleh Syniehubov. Another four people were injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zelenskyy said that a guided bomb had hit a blood transfusion center in the area\u2019s Kupyan district late on August 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis war crime alone says everything about Russian aggression,\u201d Zelenskyy wrote on social media. \u201cDefeating terrorists is a matter of honor for everyone who values life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Heavy shelling continued along the frontline in Eastern Ukraine as Kyiv continues to push forward with its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2023\/06\/12\/russias-improved-weaponry-and-tactics-challenge-ukraine-offensive\/\" target=\"_blank\">ongoing counteroffensive<\/a>. Elsewhere in the Kharkiv region, a 58-year-old woman was killed and a 66-year-old man was hospitalized after Russian shelling of the village of Podoly, an official said. In Ukraine\u2019s eastern Kupyan region, Russian missiles injured a 55-year-old man and ignited a forest fire, officials said on social media. Russian attacks in the Donetsk region villages of Torske and Niu-York killed two people, local governor Pavlo Kyrylenko posted on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukrainian shelling in Russian-held Donetsk killed a woman in her eighties, the city\u2019s Moscow-appointed mayor Alexei Kulemzin said Sunday. The shelling also set the main building of a university on fire, according to the Moscow-installed head of the illegally annexed region, Denis Pushilin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia\u2019s Emergency Situations Ministry said that the blaze caused the building\u2019s roof to collapse, but that there were no casualties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moscow\u2019s Vnukovo airport, located 15 kilometers (9 miles) southwest of the capital, briefly suspended flights Sunday morning after a drone was shot down in the airspace around the city. It was the fourth attack on Moscow in a month, highlighting the city\u2019s vulnerability as Russia\u2019s war grinds into its 18th month. The drone was destroyed by air defense systems in the Podolsk region of the Moscow suburbs, Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It said no one was injured from the abortive drone attack, although Russian media outlet Baza later reported a 77-year-old man suffered a shrapnel wound on his hand. The reports could not be independently verified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukrainian authorities, which generally avoid commenting on attacks on Russian soil, didn\u2019t say whether it launched the raid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Flights were last halted at the airport on July 30, when two drones crashed into the Moscow City business district after being jammed by Russian air defenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also on Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mother-ukraine-monument-soviet-emblem-trident-5c0f509d476835c6ce5e93599a2ec28c\" target=\"_blank\">Ukraine replaced the Soviet hammer and sickle<\/a> that adorned the 200-foot (61-meter) Mother Ukraine statue in Kyiv with the tryzub, the three-pronged trident that was officially adopted as the country\u2019s coat of arms in 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The change to one of the nation\u2019s most recognizable landmarks is part of a wider shift 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