During the last night, 28 unmanned aerial vehicles have been intercepted and destroyed by duty air defense systems. On Monday, March 24 was reported on the page of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in the telegram channel.
12 UAVs are intercepted above the territories of the Bryansk and Rostov regions, two UAVs – above the territory of the annexed Crimea, one UAV – above the territory of the Krasnodar Territory and above the water area of the Sea of Azov, the department said.
Acting Governor of the Rostov Region Yuri Slyusar said that at night the forces and air defense forces destroyed the UAV in the Aksai, Oktyabrsky rural, Krasnosulinsky, Ust-Donetsk, Kernograd, Myasnikovsky districts, as well as in Novoshakhtinsk and on the approach to Rostov. According to him, previously, there are no injured and destruction.
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 2023, President Vladimir Zelensky said that the whole world sees the results of Ukraine’s use of drones of its own production in strategic objects 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 in a video show after a massive drone attack on 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 2023, the drone exploded over the Senate Palace in the Kremlin, repeatedly UAVs entered the buildings of the Moscow City business center. The targets are also often become border Bryansk, Belgorod and Kursk regions and annexed Crimea.