Air Defense Forces overnight destroyed 18 drones over the regions of Russia, 11 of them – over the Rostov region. On Monday, on October 21, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.
“During the last night, an attempt by the Kyiv regime has been suppressed to make a terrorist attack using an aircraft type UPS in objects in the Russian Federation,” follows the publication of the department in the telegram channel.
Air Defense Directors intercepted and destroyed by 18 unmanned aerial vehicles: 11 UAVs over the territory of the Rostov Region, 4 – above the territory of the Bryansk region, 2 – above the territory of the Kursk region and 1 above the territory of the Oryol region, said in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
The Governor of the Rostov Region Vasily Golubev said that 11 UAVs were destroyed over the region last night over the region. “Of these, 4 were destroyed in the area of Novoshakhtinsk, another in the Chaltyr region. In the Myasnikovsky district, they were also suppressed by the 6 UAVs of the electronic warfare. According to preliminary data, there are no injuries and destruction on Earth,” follows from the publication in the telegram channel.
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.