Ukraine’s military said it attacked a Russian air base near the Crimean city of Saki, but gave no details. Russian officials claimed to have thwarted the aerial assaults.

Russia's air defence systems destroyed Ukraine-launched drones over the Belgorod and Oryol regions late on Monday, the Russian defence ministry said, with local officials saying that there was no destruction or casualties.

Russian air defence systems fended off an Ukrainian aerial attack targeting Crimea Wednesday, a regional official said, in Kyiv's latest assault on the Black Sea peninsula annexed by Moscow.

The Russian Defense Ministry claimed that air defense units destroyed two drones over Belgorod and Oryol oblasts on the night of Sept. 19, Russian state media agency RIA Novosti reported.