Russia Downs Over 1,200 Ukrainian Drones in Overnight Strikes

According to the International Desk of Webangah News Agency, Russia‘s Ministry of Defense announced that 1,214 Ukrainian drones were intercepted and destroyed overnight. The TASS news agency, citing figures from the Mayor of Moscow, described these Ukrainian drone attacks on the country’s capital on Wednesday evening and Thursday morning as among the largest of the current year.

Sergei Sobyanin, the Mayor of Moscow, reported that from 8:30 PM Wednesday to 7:00 AM Thursday Moscow time, 613 drones were moving towards the Moscow region. Most of these were intercepted at a distance, with 231 drones destroyed as they approached the city.

According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, drones were shot down in the skies over the Bryansk, Belgorod, Kursk, Kaluga, Tula, Smolensk, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Tver, Oryol, Ryazan, Vladimir, Samara, Saratov, Penza, and Rostov regions, in addition to the Moscow region and the republics of Bashkortostan and Udmurtia.

Local officials also reported the destruction of 170 drones over the Kaluga region, 42 drones over the Tula region, eight drones in the city of Sterlitamak in Bashkortostan, and four drones in the Ulyanovsk region.