UAV hits a residential building in Russia

9 June, 2023 A damaged high-rise building after a drone strike in Voronezh, June 9, 2023 An unknown drone hit a residential building in Voronezh, Russia. The video featuring the event was published on social media.

According to local residents, an unknown gray drone was flying in the direction of an aircraft factory, but crashed into a house nearby. One of the Russian sources claims that the UAV was flying at an altitude of 200 meters in the direction of the enterprise, but deviated from the course and went into a dive. This may be related to the operation of Russian electronic warfare.

The governor reported that the apartment was empty at the time of the incident - no one was there. However, among the locals there are three people who were lightly injured by fragments of glass.

No casualties were reported. Not far from the building, there is an aircraft construction company, namely: Voronezh Aircraft Production Association on Tsiolkovsky Street.

A high-rise building that was hit by a drone in Voronezh and an aircraft factory located nearby, June 9, 2023

The aircraft-building enterprise manufactures passenger and cargo planes, including Il-76 military transport aircraft, which are in service with the Russian Armed Forces. In the past, the company was involved in the joint production of An-148 aircraft in cooperation with the Ukrainian Antonov Company.

UAV attacks on the territory of Russia

This is not the first such case when unknown drones have been spotted on the territory of the Russian Federation.

A week ago, on May 31, the capital of the aggressor country was under an unmanned aerial vehicle attack. During the raid, according to the Russians, 25 to 30 unmanned aerial vehicles were spotted, some of which were shot down by Russian air defense systems. On the same day, an explosion occurred on the territory of the Afipsky oil refinery in the Krasnodar region of the Russian Federation.

Russian media linked the incident to an unknown UAV strike.

A few days earlier, on May 26, a number of objects in the Rostov region and the Krasnodar region were hit by drones.