“Since the spring of this year, drone attacks on regions of Russia have become almost daily”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“In the Belgorod region, the factory of the EFKO company, which publicly manufactures food products, but in fact also manufactures cargo drones used by the Russian army for military purposes, was attacked,” Kovalenko said in the first message.
Later, he reported on the contents of the arsenal attacked near the village of Kotovo in the Novgorod region, approximately 680 kilometers from the border with Ukraine.
“The 13th arsenal of GRAU stores projectiles for barrel artillery, mines for mortars, missiles for MLRS “Grad”, “Smerch” and “Uragan”, as well as “Iskander” missiles, North Korean KN23, anti-aircraft missiles up to S-300, S- 400, and ammunition for the “Tor” complex, – noted the head of the Center for countering disinformation at the NSDC.
The administration of the Kotovsky village settlement of the Novgorod region informed the Astra Telegram channel that local residents were evacuated after the attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kotov. The administration did not provide other details, saying that they were investigating the consequences of the attack.
The governor of the Novgorod region, Andriy Nikitin, reported on the Telegram channel on the night of November 20 that air defense forces shot down several drones over the region. According to him, no one was injured or killed.
On the morning of November 20, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that 44 drones were shot down over nine regions of Russia overnight, the most over the Novgorod region, where 20 drones were destroyed.
Since the spring of this year, drone attacks on regions of Russia have become almost daily. Moscow blames the Ukrainian military for them, Kyiv usually does not comment on the attacks, but sources in the special services of Ukraine, as a rule, note that it is about SBU or military intelligence operations.