KIEV, Ukraine, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- Ukraine accused Russia Thursday of sending drones across the border in violation of its airspace.
"The Russian armed forces continue conducting active aerial reconnaissance and violating Ukraine's airspace," Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council spokesman Andriy Lysenko said at a press conference in Kiev on Thursday.
"The activity of two unmanned aerial vehicles was recorded yesterday," he noted, "one near Mariupol and another on the administrative border of temporarily occupied Crimea." One of the drones reportedly guided shelling of Sartana, a suburb of Mariupol.
In addition, Lysenko said that "Russians are conducting demonstrative flights of military helicopters along the Ukrainian-Russian border in Luhansk region" but have not entered Ukrainian airspace.
