Russian Air Defense Shoots Down 326 Ukrainian Drones Last Night: MoD
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The Russian air defense systems shot down 326 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions last night, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.
"During the night, from 20:00 Moscow time [17:00 GMT] on June 9 to 07:00 Moscow time on June 10, air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 326 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles," the ministry said in a statement.
The statement noted that the drones were destroyed over the Belgorod, Bryansk, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kursk, Kaluga, Lipetsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov, Ryazan, Samara, Saratov, Smolensk, Oryol, Tver, Tula, Ulyanovsk Regions, Krasnodar Territory, Moscow region, Crimea and the Black Sea.
Russian President Vladimir Putin had previously noted that Ukrainian forces are sending hundreds of drones to strike Russian territory. He emphasized that the Kiev regime is deliberately targeting civilians in the regions, attacking civilian infrastructure and transport, including ambulances and agricultural machinery. The head of state described the methods used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Kiev's foreign mercenaries as terrorist.
