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Ukraine Says Russia Launched 67 Drones in Overnight Attack

Ukrainian tank crew take a break while operating a Soviet-made T-72 tank in the Sumy region, near the border with Russia, on August 12, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Roman PILIPEY / AFP)
Ukrainian tank crew take a break while operating a Soviet-made T-72 tank in the Sumy region, near the border with Russia, on August 12, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Roman PILIPEY / AFP)
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Ukraine Says Russia Launched 67 Drones in Overnight Attack

Ukrainian tank crew take a break while operating a Soviet-made T-72 tank in the Sumy region, near the border with Russia, on August 12, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Roman PILIPEY / AFP)
Ukrainian tank crew take a break while operating a Soviet-made T-72 tank in the Sumy region, near the border with Russia, on August 12, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Roman PILIPEY / AFP)

Ukraine's air force said on Saturday Russia launched a total of 67 long-range drones in a mass overnight attack, 58 of which it was able to shoot down.
The air force said in a statement on the Telegram app that air defense units were scrambled into action in 11 regions across Ukraine, Reuters said.
Reuters correspondents in Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, heard a series of explosions shortly after 3 a.m. (0000 GMT) on Saturday, some of which resounded loudly around the city center.
Since the start of its invasion in February 2022, Moscow has launched thousands of missiles and long-range drones into Ukraine.
Kyiv's air force said the Shahed drones were launched from two border regions in Russia as well as from the Russian-occupied peninsula of Crimea.

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Iran Rejects Allegation of Interference in US Election

The spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry. Photo: Iran's Foreign Ministry
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Iran Rejects Allegation of Interference in US Election

The spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry. Photo: Iran's Foreign Ministry
The spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry. Photo: Iran's Foreign Ministry

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kanaani has rejected claims made by US Attorney General Merrick Garland about increasing efforts by some countries, including Iran, to interfere in the US presidential elections.

Kanaani rejected the “hackneyed, baseless and biased” allegations, saying such accusations pursue domestic political objectives in the US.

"We will be relentlessly aggressive in countering and disrupting attempts by Russia and Iran, as well as China or any other foreign malign actor, (to) interfere in our elections and undermine our democracy," Garland said earlier this week.

Kanaani reminded the American officials that they cannot heal the rifts and settle their country’s internal problems, which he said have structural, political and social roots, by pinning the blame on others and leveling accusations against the foreign countries.

“The US government, which spearheads illegal interference in the internal affairs of the other independent states and has a litany of such destructive measures on its record, cannot attribute its domestic problems and crises to the other countries by making accusations against them or cover up the dark record of its extrajudicial actions and interference in the internal affairs of the independent states,” he added.