Russia reports destroying 92 Ukrainian drones

Russia’s Defense Ministry said Thursday its aerial defenses changeable down 92 Ukrainian aerial drones that targeted areas on the Russia-Ukraine border.

The ministry said much than fractional of the drones were intercepted implicit Krasnodar, wherever Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said falling debris damaged respective homes but did not origin immoderate casualties.

Russian aerial defenses besides changeable down drones implicit the Kursk, Rostov, Bryansk, Belgorod and Voronezh regions, arsenic good arsenic the Sea of Azov and Russia-occupied Crimea.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and French President Emmanuel Macron were acceptable to conscionable Thursday successful Paris "to reaffirm France’s determination to proceed to provide, implicit the agelong word and with each of its partners, unwavering enactment to Ukraine and the Ukrainian people," according to a connection from the Elysee Palace.

The sojourn to France volition beryllium Zelenskyy’s 5th since Russia’s penetration of Ukraine, and it comes a time aft Macron visited portion of a brigade of Ukrainian troops grooming astatine an undisclosed determination successful France.

France is grooming 2,300 soldiers of the 4,500-member Anne of Kyiv brigade, named aft the Kyiv-born princess who joined French King Henry I successful 1051. The different 2,200 soldiers are being trained successful Ukraine.

A French presidency authoritative said the Ukrainian soldiers’ grooming volition beryllium implicit successful a fewer months and is "completely identical to the concern they volition find connected the ground."

The authoritative said the troops "will look existent situations — stress, noise, drones," during their training.

France has pledged to equip the brigade. Included among the promised items are 128 armored vehicles, 18 Caesar howitzers and 20 anti-tank rocket units.

Some accusation for this communicative was provided by Reuters, Agence France-Presse and The Associated Press.