<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Russia said it repelled Ukrainian drone attacks over several parts of Crimea, outer Moscow and two border regions on Sunday.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">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.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">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.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Russian officials have downplayed their significance.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"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 defence ministry said on Telegram in the round-up of Sunday's attacks.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The drones "have been thwarted", it added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Most of the attacks were early Sunday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Late Sunday, three drones were destroyed over southwestern Crimea, as was a solitary drone over the Belgorod border region, defence ministry updates said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Telegram updates throughout the day totalled 13 drones destroyed, including nine over Crimea.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">They did not say whether there had been any casualties or damage in the attacks.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">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.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The buildings, "where the repair and restoration of armoured vehicles of the armed forces of Ukraine were carried out, were hit by a missile strike," it said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">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.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Missiles hit the building of a civilian enterprise. There was a fire," he said on Telegram. AFP</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>