INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russia said it repelled Ukrainian drone attacks over several parts of Crimea, outer Moscow and two border regions on Sunday.Crimea has been
targeted by Ukraine throughout Russia's offensive but attacks there have recently intensified as Kyiv vows to recapture the Black Sea
peninsula, which Moscow annexed in 2014.And since Ukraine launched its counter-offensive in early June, Russia has weathered waves of drone
attacks that have sporadically damaged buildings, including in the capital Moscow.Russian officials have downplayed their
significance."Drones were intercepted over the western, southwestern, northwestern and eastern parts of the Crimean peninsula; Istra and
Domodedovo districts of Moscow region, Belgorod and Voronezh regions," Russia's Defense Ministry said on Telegram in the round-up of
Sunday's attacks.The drones "have been thwarted," it added.Most of the attacks were early Sunday.Late Sunday, three drones were destroyed
over southwestern Crimea, as was a solitary drone over the Belgorod border region, Defense Ministry updates said.The Telegram updates
throughout the day totalled 13 drones destroyed, including nine over Crimea.They did not say whether there had been any casualties or damage
in the attacks.In their Sunday round-up, the Russian ministry claimed that production workshops at a military vehicle repairs plant in the
eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv had been hit.The buildings, "where the repair and restoration of armored vehicles of the armed forces of
Ukraine were carried out, were hit by a missile strike," it said.Kharkiv regional governor Oleg Synegubov had said earlier in his own Sunday
round-up that shortly after midnight, Russia "launched a missile attack on the city of Kharkiv," but claimed it was a civilian business that
had been hit."Missiles hit the building of a civilian enterprise
There was a fire," he said on Telegram.
