According to the ministry, nine drones were shot down in Bryansk, three in Kursk, and two in Belgorod. The majority of the drones were shot down in areas that border Ukraine.
Three others were destroyed in Kaluga’s interior. In recent months, Ukraine has claimed a number of strikes against Russian oil storage facilities and refineries.
Some of Moscow’s largest attacks have also been directed on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.
“We deeply regret to announce the tragic loss of an additional six lives in the last 12 hours bringing the total to 76,” he said, adding that 29 Kenyans had suffered injuries and 19 been reported missing.
“Nairobi is currently experiencing the highest impact, with a significant death toll of 32 and 16,909 households displaced.”
Mwaura said all five dams comprising the Seven Forks hydropower project along the Tana river, Kenya’s longest, were at total capacity.
“There is a prediction of a massive overflow downstream within the next 24 hours. Residents in these areas are advised to move to higher grounds,” he said.
The monsoons have wreaked havoc across neighbouring Tanzania as well, with at least 155 people killed in flooding and landslides.
“The situation here is really scary,” said Khatibu Kapara, a resident of Dar es Salaam’s Jangwani neighbourhood.
“Many people including myself have been affected by floods. Many people have lost their property due to floods, their houses have been surrounded” by water, the 35-year-old told AFP.
The UN and the government reported this month that months of unrelenting rains had forced almost 96,000 people to flee Burundi, one of the world’s poorest nations.
Heavy storms that caused riverbanks to burst have also affected Uganda; as a result, several hundred villages have been relocated and two verified deaths have occurred.
In Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia towards the end of last year, thousands of people were starving due to the worst drought in forty years, which claimed over 300 lives due to rain and flooding.
El Nino is a naturally occurring climatic pattern that is usually linked to global warming and increasing heat, causing drought in some regions and excessive precipitation in others.
In March, the World Meteorological Organization of the UN declared that the most recent El Nino was among the five greatest on record.
