Ukraine’s military launched one of its largest drone attacks on Russia this year, with Russian air defenses destroying 1,198 Ukrainian drones overnight, according to TASS calculations based on the data of the Russian Defense Ministry, TASS reports.
Over the past night, air defense systems intercepted 1,198 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over the Astrakhan, Belgorod, Bryansk, Vladimir, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Oryol, Rostov, Ryazan, Saratov, Smolensk, Tver, Tula and Moscow Regions, the Republic of Crimea and the waters of the Black Sea.
The previous massive attack on Russia was registered overnight into October 29 when air defenses shot down 1,214 Ukrainian UAVs. Before that, one of the largest attacks on Russia was recorded overnight into October 18 when air defenses intercepted 1,015 Ukrainian drones.
The largest Ukrainian drone attack on Russia was recorded on September 20, the last day of vote at the elections to the State Duma (the lower house of Russia’s parliament) when air defenses intercepted and destroyed 1,951 Ukrainian UAVs and eight missiles.
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