Russian air defences intercept 28 drones across multiple regions

Russian air defence forces shot down 28 unmanned aerial vehicles over multiple regions of Russia between 08:00 and 16:00 Moscow time, the defence ministry has said.

According to Caliber.Az, the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation said its on-duty air defence systems intercepted and destroyed the drones, which were described as fixed-wing UAVs.

“Twenty-eight Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of aircraft type were intercepted and destroyed over the territories of the Belgorod Oblast, Bryansk Oblast, Kaluga Oblast, Kursk Oblast, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, and the Moscow region,” the ministry said.

By Aghakazim Guliyev