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Drones crash in Russia's Kaluga Oblast

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by Olena Goncharova

A drone crashed early on June 11 near the village of Strelkovka in Russia's Kaluga Oblast, the regional governor Vladislav Shapsha reported on his official Telegram page. Kaluga region borders with the Moscow Oblast to its north.

"According to preliminary information - no casualties," Shapsha wrote. Later, he added that another drone was found in the forested area of the Medynsky District in the northern part of the oblast. Emergency services were brought to the scene.

The governor did not provide further details following the incident.

On June 5, two drones fell on a highway in the oblast, there was no detonation of explosives, Shapsha then reported. The drones fell appoximately 300 kilometers from Moscow.

In recent weeks, there have been numerous reports of drone strikes occurring within Russian territory, primarily in the regions that share a border with Ukraine.

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Olena Goncharova is the Special Correspondent for the Kyiv Independent, where she has previously worked as a development manager and Canadian correspondent. She first joined the Kyiv Post, Ukraine's oldest English-language newspaper, as a staff writer in January 2012 and became the newspaper’s Canadian correspondent in June 2018. She is based in Edmonton, Alberta. Olena has a master’s degree in publishing and editing from the Institute of Journalism in Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. Olena was a 2016 Alfred Friendly Press Partners fellow who worked for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for six months. The program is administered by the University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia.

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