Russia says it shot down 326 Ukrainian drones in overnight attack

Russian air defence systems intercepted and destroyed 326 Ukrainian drones overnight across multiple regions, the Russian Ministry of Defence said.

In a statement, the ministry said the drones were shot down between 20:00 Moscow time on June 9 and 07:00 Moscow time on June 10, Caliber.Az reports.

It added that the unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed over a wide range of territories, including the Belgorod, Bryansk, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kursk, Kaluga, Lipetsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov, Ryazan, Samara, Saratov, Smolensk, Oryol, Tver, Tula, and Ulyanovsk regions, as well as the Krasnodar region, Moscow region, and the Republic of Crimea.

According to the ministry, drones were also intercepted over the Black Sea.

By Sabina Mammadli