Ukraine drone attack forces evacuation in Russia's Tver region

18/9/2024 12:17

        A Ukrainian drone attack sparked a fire and forced the partial evacuation of residents in Russia's Tver region, with officials saying on Wednesday that Kyiv targeted several western regions in strikes overnight.
        
        Wreckage from a destroyed Ukrainian drone sparked a fire in the town of Toropets in the western part of the Tver region, Igor Rudenya, the governor of the region located northwest of Moscow said on the Telegram messaging app.
        
        Fire fighters were trying to contain the fire, Rudenya said, but he did not say what was burning. Russian air defence units were still trying to repel "a massive drone attack" over the town, he added.
        
        According to a RIA state news agency report from 2018, Russia was building an arsenal for the storage of missiles, ammunition and explosives in Toropets, a 1,000-year-old town, which has a population of just over 11,000.