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Russian Air Defense Shot Down 18 Ukrainian Drones Overnight - MoD

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian air defense alert systems intercepted and destroyed 18 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions last night, most of them over the Rostov region, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

"During the past night, an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack using a fixed-wing drone against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation was thwarted. Air defense alert systems intercepted and destroyed 18 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles," the report says.

Russia's Special Operation in Ukraine

Russian Air Defense Systems Intercepted 110 Ukrainian Drones Overnight

Yesterday, 04:40 GMT

It is specified that 11 of them were shot down over the Rostov region, four more over the Bryansk region, two over the Kursk region, and one over the Oryol region.