Air Defense Forces at night shot down 56 drones over the five regions of Russia and the Sea of Azov. This was reported on Friday, April 18 in the telegram channel of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
“During the last night, 56 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type were destroyed and intercepted by the air defense systems,- follows from the publication.
The department noted that 27 drones were neutralized over the territory of the Voronezh region, 12 – over the territory of the Belgorod region, 12 – over the water area of the Azov Sea, three – above the territory of the Republic of Crimea and one at a time above the territories of the Rostov Region and the Krasnodar Territory.
The Governor of Belgorod Vyacheslav Gladkov region announced the wound of one person as a result of the attack of the drone. “In the new Tavolzhanka, the drone attacked a man who was riding a bicycle. The victim was taken to the ambulance substation in Shebekino by passing transport. Doctors diagnosed him with a barotaurum and a fragmentation wound of his back,” the head of the region said in a telegram channel on Friday on Friday, April 18
In another publication made in the region of 1.40 in the night, Gladkov also reported the wound of a civilian resident. “In the village of Belyanka of the Shebekinsky district, the truck was attacked by the enemy drone. The driver was wounded. Self-defense soldiers delivered a man with a mine-explosive injury, multiple surface fragmentation wounds of the abdomen, forearms and legs to Shebekinsky Central District Hospital. The vehicle completely burned down,” he said. The attacks of drones on the Russian regions began in 2022 against the backdrop of the “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine.
Kyiv did not officially confirm its involvement, but in August 2023, an adviser to the head of the office of the Ukrainian president Mikhail Podolyak said that the number of UAVs of UAVs in Russia “will increase.”
In early March 2023, President Vladimir Zelensky said that the whole world sees the results of Ukraine’s use of drones of its own production in strategic objects in Russia. “I think everyone sees that our drones work. And they work long -range. Our range is a real approach of security for everyone,” the head of the Ukrainian state in a video show after a massive drone attack on the regions of the Russian Federation, including the Moscow region.
Zelensky emphasized that “Ukraine will apply the Russian state with return losses is quite fair.”
In May 2023, the drone exploded over the Senate Palace in the Kremlin, repeatedly UAVs entered the buildings of the Moscow City business center. The targets are also often become border Bryansk, Belgorod and Kursk regions and annexed Crimea.