In the Kaluga region, on the evening of May 16, fragments of a drone were found in a forest near the village of Tarutino. On this subject informed RIA Novosti with reference to emergency services.
According to initial information, the drone was not carrying ammunition. Security forces removed the wreckage of the search engine.
By data Baza telegram channel, the drone fell near the A-108 “Moscow Big Ring” highway in the Tarutino region of the Zhukovsky district and exploded after the fall. Eyewitnesses told police they saw the drone fall and heard an explosion. According to preliminary data, no casualties.
The driver of a heavy truck, which was heading towards Serpukhov around 7 p.m. Moscow time, was the first to report the downing of the drone. How writing Baza, after the drone crashed, there was a loud explosion, “and a wave of dirt, debris and branches flew down the road.”
Telegram channel Shot in reference to eyewitnesses informed about two explosions.
“We were at a picnic with my family in the forest, at seven o’clock we saw a big drone in the sky, it was shot down, it was not on fire. There were two applause, very loud, almost deaf. It flew very fast, fragments scattered along the road near the forest,” one of the locals told the outlet.
By data Mash, the explosion was so loud that it was heard in Obninsk, Kurilovo, Zhukov, Vorotynsk and Kaluga, and the windows of residential buildings were shaking.
In the Kaluga region and dozens of other regions in Russia, restrictions on drone flights have been introduced since early May after a drone attack on the Kremlin on the night of May 3.
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