Air defense forces (air defense) overnight intercepted and destroyed 101 drones over eight regions of Russia and the Sea of Azov. This was reported on Saturday, September 21 was reported in the telegram channel of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
“During the last night, when the Kyiv regime is trying to make a terrorist attack using unmanned aerial vehicles on objects on the territory of the Russian Federation, 101 Ukrainian Airpan-type UPSs was destroyed and intercepted by the air defense systems,- follows from the message.
The department clarified that 53 UAVs were intercepted and destroyed above the territory of the Bryansk region, 18 – over the territory of the Krasnodar Territory, 5 – above the territory of the Kaluga region, 3 UAVs above the territories of the Tver and Belgorod regions, one BPL above the territories of Smolensk, Kursk regions and annexed Crimea, 16 UAVs above the water area of the Sea of Azov.
The attacks of drones on the Russian regions began in 2022 against the backdrop of the “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine.
Kyiv did not officially confirm its involvement, but in August 2023, an adviser to the head of the office of the Ukrainian president Mikhail Podolyak said that the number of UAVs of UAVs in Russia “will increase.”
In early March, President Vladimir Zelensky said that the whole world sees the results of Ukraine’s use of drones of its own production of strategic facilities in Russia. “I think everyone sees that our drones work. And they work long -range. Our range is a real approach of security for everyone,” the head of the Ukrainian state of video showing after a massive attack of drones in the regions of the Russian Federation, including the Moscow region.
Zelensky emphasized that “Ukraine will apply the Russian state with return losses is quite fair.”
In May, the drone exploded over the Senate Palace in the Kremlin, repeatedly the UAV fell into the buildings of the Moscow City business center. The targets are also often become border Bryansk, Belgorod and Kursk regions and annexed Crimea.