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The governor of the Leningrad region laid out, and then deleted the video of the air defense work on the Gulf of Finland
In the Lomonosovsky district of the Leningrad region, the Air Defense System worked. According to the head of the region, Alexander Drozdenko, "air goals are affected by the water area and the coast of the Gulf of Finland."
According to Drozdenko, there is no victim and destruction. In confirmation of his words, Drozdenko published a video of what he described as a defeat of the air target. But later this post was edited, and instead of the video, one static frame with a blurry lower part was laid out. This is noteworthy , in particular, the Prochrevsky Telegram channel Baza. In the comments to the post, users noted that by the source video it was possible to determine the location of the air defense system.
According to the Telegram channel "Mash on the Moika", in the area of the port of Bronka there were two powerful explosions. At the Pulkovo airport from 19:32 to 20:03, restrictions on the departure and arrival of aircraft were introduced . Fontanka writes that a drone was shot down over the Finnish Gulf.
The report of the Russian Ministry of Defense says: “The Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was destroyed over the territory of the Leningrad Region by duty air defense systems.” It is noted that it was an airplane -type UAV and it was shot down at about 19:30 Moscow time. At 19:32, as the Federal Air Transport Agency reported, Pulkovo Airport in the region temporarily stopped accepting and sending flights.
On March 2, in the morning, as a result of the fall of a drone in St. Petersburg, a five -story residential building received damage. According to preliminary data, the drone flew into the house on Piskarevsky Prospekt, 161 on the morning of March 2. In the five -story building, it damaged the balconies and knocked out glass. Glazing of a neighboring house is damaged. Emergency services continue to work.
Residents were evacuated. The governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov said that as a result of the attack, "glazing of the balconies of two houses" suffered. “6 people turned to specialists for help, including a 92 -year -old woman. It is hospitalized with symptoms of stress reaction, ”the press release of the city health care committee said.
Journalists suggested that the goal of drone could be the oil depot “streams”, which is located about a kilometer from the scene of the explosion. The media also suggested that there were two drones, but later this information was not confirmed.