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Air Defence shot down 84 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions last night: Ministry

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Moscow: Russian air defence systems destroyed 84 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions last night, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Thursday.

“During the past night, attempts by the Kiev regime to carry out terrorist attacks using fixed-wing drones against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation were thwarted. Air defence systems destroyed 84 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles,” the ministry said, adding that 36 drones were destroyed over the Rostov Region, 21 over the Bryansk Region, 14 over the Belgorod Region, six over the Voronezh Region, three over each of the Kursk and Tambov Regions, and one over the Krasnodar Territory.

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